[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26220: Twenty Fourteen: Light accent color makes search icon almost invisible

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#26220: Twenty Fourteen: Light accent color makes search icon almost invisible
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 Reporter:  thomasguillot  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  3.8
Component:  Bundled Theme  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                 |
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Comment (by celloexpressions):

 Replying to [comment:11 iamtakashi]:
 > Replying to [comment:8 celloexpressions]:
 > > I'm fine with going the route of re-defined color schemes, as long as
 they change more than just the accent color ...
 >
 > Why does it need to change more than the accent color?
 Using a select UI, or some equivalent choice from a list, in place of a
 color picker (which is the standard way of displaying color options in
 WordPress), is an obvious sacrifice of usability and functionality.
 Additionally, loading the colors CSS from new files adds a lots of
 technical overhead (in a more visible way than the current approach, as
 we'll have more files, which will carry a certain importance).

 Basically, there are two issues: an atypical, limiting UI, and the (mostly
 psychological) weight of adding new files. I think that we can justify
 these concerns only if we have more obviously changing color schemes, with
 something more robust than an accent color option.

 We should think of the current accent color option like the link color
 option that was in Twenty Eleven, but slightly more powerful. Does it make
 sense to limit a link color option to a few specific options because we're
 worried that users will pick a color that doesn't show up well against the
 white page background? That's basically what this ticket is arguing.

 I would prefer that the alternate color options retained the strong
 contrast between the sidebar and page content, since that's how the theme
 works best (and that design works very well with alternates for the green
 colors), but we'd need to provide some alternatives with color schemes.

 I have come up with a couple of other approaches to resolve the concerns
 in this ticket while preserving the accent color option. We could switch
 the color picker out with one that only supports changing the hue, but not
 the intensity. Or, we could do some basic checks to flip the color of the
 search icon when contrast is too low. However, there is no elegant way to
 do such a flip to compensate for the fact that the link color is also the
 accent color. Because the link color is the accent color, I'm leaning
 towards thinking that this is really more of a wontfix, for the same
 reasons that link color options are typically implemented with color
 pickers.

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