This is my current light theme, any suggestions?

[–] TheRedArmy 2 points (+2|-0)

Not sure how the blue (is that for links visited) on the main page will contrast to the white. If it looks fine to you, it's probably OK.

In the "submit a text post" field, you might try using a color other than grey? It looked iffy on the screenshot, but I can't be sure how it looks without actually witnessing it. Currently seems a bit light to be - maybe a darker grey.

Otherwise, no major issues.

[–] PMYA [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

The blue is for links visited, it's the same colour as the blue on the dark theme. Hovering over links causes it to go blue too. It looks fine to me.

All button hovering is the same as the dark theme except the orange buttons on the sidebar turn a darker orange colour.

The text in the comment/post boxes is light grey when it says the "write your post content here" bit, but when you start typing the text is black.

I still have an issue with the upvotes on the frontpage being black. It makes it harder to see what you've already voted on. Strangely, they are a grey colour on subs and the upvote colours stand out more. I think there is an issue with two bits of css targetting the upvotes on the frontpage, but I can't figure out what's causing it.

[–] Amy 1 points (+1|-0)

Looks better than the current light theme. Personally, I think the header is a bit too dark though (#dcdcdc?). I like #E5E5E5 better; it's 4% darker than the subscription bar (#EDEDED?).

Any chance you could drop the CSS somewhere?

P.S. Is there ever gonna be a redesign? :P Something more modern like this or this would be great; set the site apart a little more.

[–] PMYA [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

Everything is either white, #EEE or #DDD I think. My intention was to make a light theme that isn't blindingly bright and also has different tones to make everything more readable/easier to look at. It turned out to be a lot easier to come up with a design for the dark theme.

Here is the CSS. It's not very tidy.

I don't know if there's going to be a redesign, that's up to the admins. I think the current layout of the site is ok for now but it does look a bit bland. I like the look of that Apicem thing.

[–] Amy 1 points (+1|-0)

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It looks good. I do think the headers are a bit dark, maybe #E1E1E1 would be better, but looks good either way.

Sidebar text is a bit light, and so is 'preview' text. Thought about doing a :visited:hover color?

As for your vote color issue, it looks like their color is being inherited from body (on comments, this takes precedence), then again overridden and inherited from main.col-8.right.center

I don't know if there's going to be a redesign, that's up to the admins. Figured, but had to ask. I know they mentioned it but dunno if they are gonna do it.

[–] PMYA [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

Headers are darker because I did originally have them lighter and it made chains of comments hard to sort through. After I made them darker, it made the post headers look weird because they were lighter, so I changed the post headers. When I changed the post headers, it made the header at the top of the page look weird because it was lighter, so I changed that too.

The sidebar text is darker than the current style. At first I made it black, and that made it look odd, so I went for a grey. I thought it was too light as well, but I used the site for a couple of hours and became accustomed to it. What do you mean by preview text? The text that shows up in comment boxes before you start typing?

Thought about doing a :visited:hover color?

I did actually think about a visited:hover colour. I was going to use the colour of the 4chan logo (#880000) but decided against it because it looked over-complicated.

As for your vote color issue, it looks like their color is being inherited from body

You're right, I see it now but I'm not entirely sure how to fix that. There are some other things like that too, the small buttons underneath posts and some on the sidebar are actually taking their colour from the piece of css that changes the sidebar text.

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