Wider pinstripes?

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

How's this, guys?

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[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

*nods* That works. Much less busy behind the text.

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

Splendid!

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

Much better.

[euclase.livejournal.com]

No, the pinstripes are uncomfortable. Spacing won't help (unless you make them more subtle?). I'm sorry! I'm being a pest, I know. I mean, it's really cool you're going to the awesome effort of redesigning the look of this community for us. That's awesome! So I shouldn't even complain (I only see it on my flist anyway), but I mean... I just clicked on a random tag (like genre: drama (http://community.livejournal.com/indeedsir/tag/genre:+drama), say), and those stripes just completely cut up all the words and make it difficult to read, to the point that I would want to click away from this comm as quickly as possible if I were just visiting.

Please don't try and please just one person, though! Because it's probably just me, lol. But yeah. <3

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

It's you and innocentsmith, but I'm pretty sure I won't be changing it. What monitor are you viewing on? I've heard from a couple people that they see 'white' pinstripes, when the pinstripes are actually light grey on grey.

[euclase.livejournal.com]

That's fine. Like I said, I only see this comm on my friends page, anyway. The pinstripes are a really sweet idea.

But, for the record, an iMac monitor.

[serpenatrix.livejournal.com]

I have the same visual feeling when clicking on a tag. The wider pinstripes are better, but they keep breaking up the letters. Maybe trying another font type or another font colour?

Thank you for your efforts, mellifluous_ink :).

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

The font is black, what colour could be better?

[serpenatrix.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure... I've been trying some combinations on Photoshop (Pantone Violet 2602 C perhaps? White?) but I found none of them satisfactory. Maybe black is the best colour after all, but... everything lavender-ish + black looks a bit sad or cold IMHO. Sorry to be so fussy *is embarrased*, I know it's impossible to please everyone. Thank you, *thank you* for your work. Anything you do will be great :).

[closetofheroes.livejournal.com]

I've just jumped into all this and missed most of the discussion. This is much better than the magic paper, and it does look classy, but I have to admit I'm not keen on the stripes either.

It's probably worth bearing in mind that I do have a migraine at the moment - so my eyes are probably more sensitive than usual :)

Also, if it were me (and I know I would be lost if I even tried) I'd maybe go with a slightly warmer shade of grey for the background. This one's just a bit cold. It's very stylish though.

Not a big deal anyway. You can't please everyone! Mostly I'm relieved we're not sticking with magic paper - when I saw that design I wound up clicking the 'view in my style' link. It was much harder to read. Thanks for all your hard work - it does look much better than the old version (not the magic paper, the one before that). I'm really glad to see the icons on the left.

[innocentsmith.livejournal.com]

It's a little better, but IMO it really would be much less visually distracting to have a solid color text field for posts. The pinstripes are as accents but when you're trying to read they break up the letters.

[smutnazi.livejournal.com]

I have to agree. Solid background would make for reading things easier, but this looks so spiffy that I don't want to see it go at all, just not for the posts.

Cause this is a really spiffy layout, and I like it a lot, it's just a hair difficult to read on.

[closetofheroes.livejournal.com]

I think that's the opinion I have too, actually. SOrry, I just saw Smutnazi/innocentsmiths's post.

[niektete.livejournal.com]

My, my, my ^^ I love pinstripes, so I'm all for this new layout!

[an-sceal.livejournal.com]

I like them!

[waqaychay.livejournal.com]

i love the pinstripes! they don't make it difficult for me to read the text at all, imho. it looks very classy. :)

[furius.livejournal.com]

But do we really need the lavender text? Not that it's not color-coordinated, but it's...lavender.

Great job on the background. The pinstripes look spiffy.

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

Lavender? There isn't any lavender. There's dark violet...?

[furius.livejournal.com]

The "A Jeeves & Wooster Fan-Community" part is a medium violet at best on my screen and almost melts into the background. The links, usernames etc are definitely dark violet.

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

Okay, I think that's your monitor. The violet is a dark-medium shade.

[euclase.livejournal.com]

Same for me. It's much lighter than dark violet. It's definitely lavender and not much darker than the background.

[potatofiend.livejournal.com]

Yup.

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

Well, that would be your monitor, then. The purples are actually almost so dark they're black (none of the hex code goes higher then 77 on any of them).

[euclase.livejournal.com]

Okay, but you asked. And if it's more than one of us, then maybe it's YOUR monitor.

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your input.

[waqaychay.livejournal.com]

i don't see it as lavender, either, but even if i did, would that be so bad? given the connotations to lavender (lavender gloves and oscar wilde, i.e.), i would think it would be somewhat appropriate for this community. not to mention that it would go nicely with the purply-grey color scheme. :)

[closetofheroes.livejournal.com]

Aren't lavender and violet both posh ways of saying 'purple'? I just mean that the difference between lavender and violet is sort of a matter of personal opinion, isn't it?

I'd prefer it if the colors were a bit warmer, personally, but I do like the overall style of this.

[waqaychay.livejournal.com]

well, that's a bit like saying maroon and pink are posh ways of saying red, isn't it? i mean, they're in the red color spectrum, but they're definitely different colors. :)

[closetofheroes.livejournal.com]

okay. Perhaps I'm just saying that I'm a philistine who doesn't know the difference between violet, lavender, lilac or purple. They're all different forms of red and blue mixed together as far as I can tell - but that's the extent of my colour expertise, I'm afraid. ;)

I'm sure Bertie would know better.

[closetofheroes.livejournal.com]

Lol. I just seconded smutnazi's comment, hit 'post' then lo and behold, it was done. Thanks, this is much easier to read!

By the way, mellifluous_ink, I'm a software developer - so I know what it's like to work your fingers to the bone trying to please a ton of people. Sometimes you just want to ... well. It's hard. I've got to the point where I mostly have someone else give me the gist of the feedback we get, so I don't have to hear the original tone the comments were written in! You've done a great job.

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

It is very lovely to have some words of encouragement. I managed to keep from freaking out by just forcing myself to count up the 'votes' and I think I'm okay now.

Now that the entry field is solid, I want to mess around with the narrower stripes again.

[closetofheroes.livejournal.com]

I think you could do that. I never saw the design with the narrower stripes before but now that it doesn't sit under the text you could do just about anything. The stripes are a great concept.

I feel for you, anyway. Feedback is really valuable, but it can be hard to read unless you have really thick skin. Tip: if you ever start a small business, never be a customer service rep for your own company. ;)

[vwlphb.livejournal.com]

I like what you've done with the layout. The pinstripes are a cute idea. Personally, I liked the closer together pinstripes, if it comes down to a close vote, but I'm happy with either :)

[hawkelf.livejournal.com]

Love the pinstripes and everything, it's quite lovely. Thanks for all your hard work!

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

I like the stripes, but the text box dark grey is kind of oppressive.

Everyone's a critic... :D I don't really mind either way and I'm a lurker, even. Sorry!

[mxdp.livejournal.com]

*nods head in approval*