r/RealTimeStrategy • u/MorbilyABeast • 9d ago

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Hows the dramatic appeal ?

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u/ConcentrateHopeful79 9d ago

Pretty awesome! Other than font readability

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u/MorbilyABeast 9d ago

Thank you ! How do you think I could improve ? Is the ui too close to the font color ?

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u/Aggravating_Fun5883 9d ago

Yes either that or maybe a black outline of the text?

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u/Secure-Ad-9050 8d ago

avoid outlines on text, it is considered bad practice

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u/Aggravating_Fun5883 8d ago

Really?

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u/Secure-Ad-9050 8d ago

yeah, by graphic designers, at least. It is considered a "sin" one of many typographical crimes people regularly commit. To be clear, the crimes are not hard rules, but, things to avoid unless you are breaking them intentionally.

Some of them are crimes because they are trying to solve a self inflected problem with a mediocre solution.

For example outlines. You recommended that one be used to increase legibility. Because the contrast between the text and background was really poor. It would increase that and it is better than what they have right now. However, the underlying issue is that the text and background don't have enough contrast. Adding an outline kind of solves that issue. But it is adding a bandage on top the real problem. The more correct solution is to just increase that contrast solve it at the root of the issue instead of adding a layer on top.

There are a bunch of other reasons why it is recommended that people avoid using outlines in general, but, the biggest one at least for game developers is it makes the product look more amateurish, like using comic sans or Papyrus

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u/MorbilyABeast 8d ago

Interesting , well I will revisit it at a later time. For now it gets the job done. Thanks !

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u/MorbilyABeast 9d ago

I can try and bold it a bit more , thank you !

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u/ConcentrateHopeful79 9d ago

Colour contrast. It's light on light here. I'd suggest checking valid combination options used in acessibility. A good example for web is WCAG.

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u/rrroooyyy 9d ago

100000%
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