ssvbxx2 wrote:

Support; this will be better in terms of accessibility while also keeping the familiar blue color. I actually found a different shade of blue (#5c63d6) that has better contrast than the purple and looks just as good, but royal blue would basically be the same.

medians wrote:

ssvbxx2 wrote:

Support; this will be better in terms of accessibility while also keeping the familiar blue color. I actually found a different shade of blue (#5c63d6) that has better contrast than the purple and looks just as good, but royal blue would basically be the same.

Wait, what if we darkened this color:
#4a6cd4
This is the 2.0 motion color.

medians wrote:

ssvbxx2 wrote:

Support; this will be better in terms of accessibility while also keeping the familiar blue color. I actually found a different shade of blue (#5c63d6) that has better contrast than the purple and looks just as good, but royal blue would basically be the same.

Wait, what if we darkened this color:
#4a6cd4
This is the 2.0 motion color.

ssvbxx2 wrote:

medians wrote:

ssvbxx2 wrote:

Support; this will be better in terms of accessibility while also keeping the familiar blue color. I actually found a different shade of blue (#5c63d6) that has better contrast than the purple and looks just as good, but royal blue would basically be the same.

Wait, what if we darkened this color:
#4a6cd4
This is the 2.0 motion color.

The contrast actually drops significantly; although it's still higher than the current purple header, it's just barely above it, which may make the ST less incentivized to change it to that. Interesting idea, though.

medians wrote:

#2848A9
This could even be a good color, I got this from the 2.0 motion color.
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medians wrote:

#2848A9
This could even be a good color, I got this from the 2.0 motion color.

ssvbxx2 wrote:

medians wrote:

#2848A9
This could even be a good color, I got this from the 2.0 motion color.

That actually has way higher contrast than the current header color (8.1:1 compared to 4.67:1); maybe the ST will actually change the color to that if they're made aware of it. Their main goal with changing the header color in the first place is accessibility, after all.

Za-Chary wrote:

--HyperZ-- wrote:

rdococ wrote:

Substituting a dark blue is easier than updating every little thing to match.

This is also a good point.

Avoiding the debate on whether or not we could ever know for sure if that is truly easier … wouldn't the color scheme still suffer the same fate? Links and forum post headers, for example, would still be the old blue color, giving a less consistent look.

rdococ wrote:

Recently, the Scratch Team changed the colour scheme for the Scratch website from azure to purple. There are several reasons why this change is just plain silly, but I'll gloss over those for now.

Looking over the w3 organization's accessibility guidelines that the Scratch Team are themselves using, they stipulate that the contrast between small text and the background should be at least 4.5:1. (Though, ideally, it should be at least 7:1.) Here's a website for checking the contrast ratio between two colours. (Thanks to @gilbert_given_189 for the link! Alternatively, here's a spreadsheet to calculate the contrast ratio.)

I discovered that the royal blue colour #0066CC has a contrast ratio of around 5.57, instead of the purple colour scheme's 4.67. It looks far better in my opinion, and will be more familiar to the vast majority of users who are used to the original colour scheme. Here's a comparison of the three navbars: from top to bottom, the original, the current purple scheme and my proposed royal blue scheme.



This will improve the aesthetic of the website tremendously. It would fit in better with the sticky icons, post headers etc. that the Scratch Team haven't yet changed because they're just two different shades of the same colour. It would be much less of a shock to the kids upset that their Scratch is purple now while meeting the accessibility criteria more thoroughly.

I know the Scratch Team has been thinking about a more accessible colour scheme for a while, but I implore the Scratch Team to seriously consider this royal blue colour scheme instead of the purple one currently in use.

Lastly, I know this seems like a duplicate, but this is a suggestion for a specific colour rather than a choice to switch between them, and I did my research as well. If the Scratch Team does deem this to be a duplicate, please move the topic to Advanced Topics instead of closing it.

This color :: #7C0085

gilbert_given_189 wrote:

Elijah999999 wrote:

I think the ST knows what they're doing.

I mean, they seem to be very serious on it… (in fact suggesting to revert the colors back is on )

nhy76yh wrote:

gilbert_given_189 wrote:

Elijah999999 wrote:

I think the ST knows what they're doing.

I mean, they seem to be very serious on it… (in fact suggesting to revert the colors back is on )

WHY TOLORS I'll hate Scratch team for this forever

k7e wrote:

How long do you think it would take to implement this, and do you think that by then people will be used to the purple color? I mean, what do you think people would say if the Scratch Team announced that the studios are going to be in a format somewhat in between the old 2.0 format and the new 3.0 format?

(maybe it would resemble @medians's version 2.0 of Scratch 3.0)

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Prince_Wolf1 wrote:

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