Template talk:EdNote

Color Choice

Do you suppose this should be pale green in color instead of hideous yellow to better match the Symbol we use with it? It would still be rather eye-catching, methinks:

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—Thirty7 18:19, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm colorblind, but I'm fine with changing it--looks okay to me. I'm not sure I like changing the border to black though. How about this? It's the background color darkened significantly (in HSV, I took V from 100 to 50).

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-- Sekoia 18:58, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

I didn't care one iota about the border color... I was just too lazy to look up a HEX color that looked right. So, that's fine by me. —Thirty7 20:25, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Gotta admit I'm a little blinded by the green. When we first talked about the color it was to keep it in a comic book theme. *shrug* -- Blondeshell 21:37, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Well, both of them look fine to me, so consider me as having no opinion then. :) -- Sekoia 22:44, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Better? Toned it down a bit. I guess I don't really get the yellow box idea from that thread. But, if folks have a strong preference not to make it match, that's cool with me.

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BTW, the rounded corner thing is AWESOME!

—Thirty7 23:50, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

-- Blondeshell 02:37, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

I don't like the green. At all. EdNotes shouldn't pop out like that, they should moderately blend in. The wiki is about the documentation, not the editor's notes. ~ AGGE talk/cons 01:47, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Are you saying that the green blends in less than the eye-searing yellow it currently is, Agge? Blondeshell: Oddly enough, I never really read many comics. Got into the genre due to all the cartoons in the 90s —Thirty7 03:05, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Fair enough: Two different roads to the same destination. -- Blondeshell 03:29, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Yes, that is what I'm saying. The yellow is rather subdued and matches the comic book style well. ~ AGGE talk/cons 04:01, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

*Shrug* In looking more, "eye-searing" was an overstatement... but I also don't think the color "blends in" either. I have to agree with the comic part though, from what I have seen. Oh well, I wasn't overly passionate about a change, just suggesting something I had thought of. —Thirty7 04:09, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

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I happened to stumble over and thought it might literally be interpreted as an EdNote. I also played around with the idea of grey-scaling the image, a la and . My only reason to alter the icon would be to increase the "subdued-ness" and "blending in" mentioned above. As well as the fact that not all EdNotes are really OMG!! exclamation point worthy. So, the literal note/letter might match the idea better. *shrug* Just idle pondering. Any thoughts? —  Talk · Cont 15:33, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Examples:

Editor's Note: {{{note}}}

Editor's Note: {{{note}}}

I would agree that not all EdNotes have the same level of urgency. Some are "Watch Out!" and others are "Oh, by the way." Maybe the template could be adjusted to use the exclamation point if a 'warning=' switch is used, and the letter icon would be on the regular 'note=' switch. Then we can go through and change the ones that are more urgent to use the 'warning' switch. Grayscale's fine with me. — talk / contribs 16:15, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

I see absolutely no reason not to use two icons, so I went ahead and implemented it using an optional type= parameter. I'm not a huge fan of the grayscale though, to me it pops out more than the colored versions and just looks weird besides. Reducing their saturation some might be okay if you really want to tone them down some, but I really don't think it's necessary. The bubble was colored in a way to match the icons, after all (or at least, I assume it was). -- Sekoia 18:30, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Actually, Sekoia, the icons are sort of a garish green to the pale yellow of the EdNote "bubble." Mayhap a light yellow version of the icons instead?