Just checking the colors

[Nifelhein]

black <-- black
white
gray
lightgray
red
brown
rosybrown
chocolate
orange
tan
darkkhaki
yellow
springgreen
lightgreen
lime
olive
aqua
aquamarine
steelblue
skyblue
orchid
hotpink
fuchsia

Yes another list, bit then, we can get a compilation of mine and yours and end up with 25 good colors, I tried to have them as disctictive as possible.

[arnon]

Seems fine, except that lightgray doesn't really look any different from the regulat color on the forum (at least to my eyes on my monitor)

I don't ever use the full reply, i only use quick reply,

I use quick reply mostely as well... but in story houres or PbP i use the reply screen cause I now that i'll be using colors and italllics and so on.. and its easier to just select them and press the button.

[smeagol]

25 colors...

is that not a little bit complicated? 

[Bleak Knight]

There aren't that many languages in all of Aryth, are there?

Unless you include generic monster languages such as goblin, giant and draconic...

[Nifelhein]

We do have 13 languages already, not counting things that may happen to show on a game now and then like sylvan, infernal and the like. And IWe do have 13 languages already, not counting things that may happen to show on a game now and then like sylvan, infernal and the like. And I have suggested 23 available, those would show on the drop down menu of the full reply, you can choose to use any named color in your posts if you type the name manually, that site I linked has a damn lot more than i suggested.

My last thoughts:

black <-- black (often used as simple spoiler hiding)
white
darkkhaki

Out of Character: gray

Orcish: red
Black Tongue: brown

Norther: olive
Erenlander: orange
Courtier: orchid
Colonial: hotpink

Trader's Tongue: yellow

Halfling: lightgreen
High Elven: lime
Jungle Mouth: green
Patrol Sign: rosybrown

Old Dwarven: steelblue
Clan Dialect: skyblue

I don't thnk we will be needing any other color at all.

[arnon]

I like it.

[Pheros]

I like the color choices presented here, though I might be inclined to change orchid to purple just to make it easier to differentiate between that and hotpink.

Joe

[arnon]

So whats going on with the color scene?

[Nifelhein]

This has eldued me before, sorry guys. Pheros, pruple looks hard to read in  your post, so that is why I avoided it, we can use fuchsia and hotpink instead, to the same effect. I will be changing this myself, hard coding it to the forum fies, but right now I am waiting for Todd, there si a new version of SMF and TinyPortal that we have to install in the site, meaning my work can go to waste if i do it now.

He is a little more than busy though, so it may take sometime. Just so you know with the later version of TP we actually get new uses out of the thing, with sorting of articles and the like presenting new ways of looking at things in the site features. And I still have to save the code change I used to make signs be posted only once per page too.

[Pheros]

Ahhh...see, I didn't even notice the sig thing until you pointed it out.

Yeah, Purple is a bit heard to read, I guess...go with orchid or fuscia then...

Joe

[Nifelhein]

Well, i changed the sign thing beccause Mask amdee himself a sign with an image, being the very first to do so, and applying the character limit, mind you. So to avoid overloading our bandwiths with the same thing time and again, i put the limit, which is very very reasonable.

Well then, I will be certain to check this once the updates are done, maybe I can even do the update, but then I would start being afraid of what could happen, if i were you, that is.

[Nifelhein]

Okay guys, this is the next thing in line now, sicne changing sign limit to once per thread page is easy enough.

[Nifelhein]

Okay here goes the color scheme I will be making into the drop down menu for the full post (not the quick reply):

black <-- black (often used as simple spoiler hiding)
white
darkkhaki

Out of Character: gray

Orcish: red
Black Tongue: brown

Norther: olive
Erenlander: orange
Courtier: orchid
Colonial: fuchsia

Trader's Tongue: yellow

Halfling: lightgreen
High Elven: lime
Jungle Mouth: green
Patrol Sign: rosybrown

Old Dwarven: steelblue
Clan Dialect: skyblue

And with the code showing

Code:

[color=black]black[/color] <-- black (often used as simple spoiler hiding)
[color=white]white[/color]
[color=darkkhaki]darkkhaki[/color]

Out of Character: [color=gray]gray[/color]

Orcish: [color=red]red[/color]
Black Tongue: [color=brown]brown[/color]

Norther: [color=olive]olive[/color]
Erenlander: [color=orange]orange[/color]
Courtier: [color=orchid]orchid[/color]
Colonial: [color=hotpink]fuchsia[/color]

Trader's Tongue: [color=yellow]yellow[/color]

Halfling: [color=lightgreen]lightgreen[/color]
High Elven: [color=lime]lime[/color]
Jungle Mouth: [color=green]green[/color]
Patrol Sign: [color=rosybrown]rosybrown[/color]

Old Dwarven: [color=steelblue]steelblue[/color]
Clan Dialect: [color=skyblue]skyblue[/color]

[Nifelhein]

And because I can, the menus are done as well, I am looking into making the backgroudn color of the drop down menu black instead of white, maybe some other color, one that allows one to read all the names there, not certain yet.

Enjoy it!

[Nifelhein]

I ended up forgetting to add Patrol Sign to the list, is that an issue? I can easily add it to the list if you guys want it there.

[arnon]

Ha...

Haven't noticed that until you mentioned it. I think for the sake of all annal retentive around here (and if it really is not too much trouble) you should...

arnon

[Nifelhein]

I will do that then, I noticed it about a week ago, and then wondered we never actually had an erunsil PbP to justify it, but then, it is a minor work, will see to it tomorrow.