The-OpenROAD-Project
colors: tweak default colors to work better on black background
Made some darker colors brighter and easier to see. A side-by-side review of all the colors needs to be done, I don't know exactly where to find them in the GUI though.
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@oharboe it might be nice to have a side by side of all the color changes you are proposing
@oharboe it might be nice to have a side by side of all the color changes you are proposing
Yes, but to do that, I would need to know how to create side-by-side screenshots of each color in that table, which I don't...
I think we should hold off on this PR until we have such a side-by-side comparison.
It is a bit tricky, because it requires showing each color in one or more use-cases.
How were these colors derived? Please make a before and after comparison images.
How were these colors derived? Please make a before and after comparison images.
I'm going to revert all color changes but the one that is most problematic. The others looked a bit darker to me too, but it is a bridge to far. The problem is to create lots of easy on the eye high contrast colors... Which is enormously tricky. :-)
Instead of changing multiple colors, I've changed only metal 5 and tried to introduce an additional different base color, bright orange, that works on black background.
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I'm going to try on more monitors, but on one either was OK, on my laptop the new scheme was definitely better.
Attempting to keep the color similar with higher contract with the adjacent layers: QColor(222, 33, 96)
This preserves the relative contract between M4 / M6 and increases the contrast with the background (although not as much as the orange).
@gadfort Used your proposed color. Works better on the monitors I tried. :+1: