[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #49999: Iterating on Admin Color Schemes

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#49999: Iterating on Admin Color Schemes
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 Reporter:  ryelle                               |       Owner:  ryelle
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  5.7
Component:  Administration                       |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing early        |     Focuses:  ui,
  needs-design-feedback                          |  accessibility, css
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Comment (by ryelle):

 I'm happy to tweak the colors, but I think we need more greys in core than
 Gutenberg — I quickly ran the replacement with these greys, and found a
 few issues due to the fact that there are no greys between `#1e1e1e` and
 `#757575`

 - [https://cloudup.com/i_kobRLsvo4 The admin menu] is lacking contrast
 around submenus, except in the secondary submenu which has a lot of
 contrast :)
 - [https://cloudup.com/ive_4KJ47t1 The secondary text color] uses
 `#757575`, which doesn't have enough contrast against the grey background
 (that color barely passes on white)

 The design team did [https://make.wordpress.org/design/2020/09/18/project-
 reducing-colors-in-core/ approve this original palette], so I think we
 have two options:

 1. Go ahead with the color updates as currently exist in the PR and
 screenshots, and once more of core is cleaned up we could start bringing
 in the greyscale greys to replace the blue-greys (perhaps as other GB
 style patterns also move into core)
  - Optionally, add "Gray 2": `#ececed` (this is halfway between Grey 0 and
 Grey 5)
 2. Discard this PR, create more greys in the gutenberg palette, and spin
 up another replacements PR to use those new colors.

 I'm happy to work closer with a designer to create a more comprehensive
 set of greys, but I do think approach 1 makes more sense.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/49999#comment:83>
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