DAN Phillips Loc: Graysville, GA

I wish that the administration folks would consider making a change to the screen so that you could better see a different color showing when an article had been opened. It's hard to differentiate, at least for me.

Ourspolair

I started this topic a while ago. Sent a p.m. to admin and they say that if I can suggest a more suitable blue, they will consider it... https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-688617-1.html
I am currently looking for a different blue that would be sufficiently contrasty to make things easier for us all. Not trivial, they don't want to use another part of the colour spectrum...

DAN Phillips Loc: Graysville, GA

Why not just a darker blue to differentiate?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Purple?

Orange?

DAN Phillips Loc: Graysville, GA

It really doesn't matter what color as long as you can see the difference.

MadMikeOne Loc: So. NJ Shore - a bit west of Atlantic City

Purple is good!
The Orange - not as good as the Purple.
Just my opinion.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

First step: Determine the colors being used.

Took a screenshot of the UHH page and blew up the images, selecting one read topic and one unread topic. Loaded the images into Photoshop and used the eyedropper to select a pixel inside a character.

Probably due to my laptop, but looking at several points gave different results. So I took several points and found the mean. Uncertainties were about 1 for red and blue channels and about 3 for the blue channel.

I came up with (RGB) of (0,1,203) for the read topic and (1,1,118) for the unread topic. I'm assuming that they were really meant to be blue so I generated sample colors at (0,0,100) and (0,0,240). That gives a (very slightly) darker blue for unread and a noticeably lighter blue for the read topic. Also tried (0,0,100) and (0,0,255) to give the brightest blue available. I left a little blue in the unread topic to avoid just pure black.

Read topic


Unread topic


Read topic in Photoshop


Unread topic in Photoshop


Current colors


Colors with slightly more contrast


Brightest blue available for read topic

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

The > works just fine for me.