HTML orange for “Pending” gives bad contrast

[demetris]

I don’t know if this orange for “Pending” is final or just a placeholder, but its contrast against white and off-white is bad (and much below the thresholds suggested by W3C).

I cannot find an orange that provides good contrast AND is sufficiently different from red, so I’m submitting a brown for consideration, at least as a temporary fix, to spare the eyes of poor beta testers. :-)

[demetris]

Replaces HTML orange (#ffa500) with brown (#964b00) in 3 CSS files

[demetris]

Before and after

[demetris]

Replaces HTML orange (#ffa500) with brown (#964b00) in 3 CSS files

[westi]

-10 to brown.

I agree the orange can be difficult to see but brown does not give the correct visual indication.

[iammattthomas]

I think the red/orange/green colors are placeholders until exact shades are picked.

[ryan]

(In [9864]) Remove colors for Recent Comments moderation links. see #8316

[janeforshort]

I'm checking with Andy to see if he can get us a darker gold/orange to provide more contrast while maintaining the go/slow/stop metaphor.

[apeatling]

Here's more of a gold/orange version. I've actually toned down the green and red a bit so they all fit together better. What do you think?

Green: #006505
Gold: #d98500
Red: #bc0b0b

[janeforshort]

Let's use Andy's revised colors. The gold could still use more contrast, I know, but it's only used in 2 places, and we can revisit in 2.8 when we start incorporating other color cues in admin.

[demetris]

The orange is better now, but the red is too dark and it does not represent well the obnoxiousness of spam. :-)

Orange against a light background is a difficult problem...

[azaozz]

(In [9940]) Acton links colors on dashboard, props apeatling, fixes #8316