[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #38391: Twenty Seventeen: Background colour for header

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#38391: Twenty Seventeen: Background colour for header
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 Reporter:  laurelfulford             |       Owner:  davidakennedy
     Type:  defect (bug)              |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  4.7
Component:  Bundled Theme             |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  good-first-bug has-patch  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by celloexpressions):

 I have only ever seen the existence of the header text color option
 justified as being necessary to ensure that the text is visible over the
 user's image. Every user test I've seen where users run into this option,
 they tend to think it's there to customize the colors of the theme and are
 disappointed/confused about there not being more options. Twenty Seventeen
 has a black gradient over the image, which makes it difficult to achieve
 good contrast over the image with colors other than white anyway.

 Can we remove the header text color option for Twenty Seventeen? If the
 gradient is made slightly darker, one could reasonably argue that white
 will work over most images, and where it doesn't, custom CSS can be used.
 The most recent round of user tests on make/design include a user who was
 concerned about the opacity of the site tagline here and struggled to
 eventually determine that CSS would be required for that, but the color
 option didn't help anyway. If we want to keep it, it should only apply or
 be visible as an option when there's an image; otherwise it falls outside
 the intended purpose of the option, causes confusion for users, and
 diverges from the carefully-designed custom color options/patterns in use
 for the rest of the theme.

 The color scheme controls are always shown, at least the last time I
 checked. Not sure how that's related here?

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