Bug 448356 - Yellow mimetype icons are barely visible against light backgrounds
Summary: Yellow mimetype icons are barely visible against light backgrounds
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: Breeze
Classification: Plasma
Component: Icons (show other bugs)
Version: 5.27.80
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: visual-design
URL:
Keywords: usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2022-01-13 12:28 UTC by Patrick Silva
Modified: 2024-03-16 16:00 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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kickoff (26.54 KB, image/png)
2022-01-13 12:28 UTC, Patrick Silva 		Details
krunner (35.63 KB, image/png)
2022-01-13 12:28 UTC, Patrick Silva 		Details
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Description Patrick Silva 2022-01-13 12:28:27 UTC 
Created attachment 145398 [details]
kickoff

Summary says it all. Please see the attached screenshots.

EXPECTED RESULT
icon of ZIP archive should have better visibility

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Comment 1 Patrick Silva 2022-01-13 12:28:43 UTC 
Created attachment 145399 [details]
krunner
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2022-01-13 18:07:09 UTC 
Yeah this yellow color is probably not ideal. It will always look fairly faint against light backgrounds.

This affects all yellow mimetype icons; renaming.
Comment 3 Manuel de la Fuente 2022-01-14 11:16:07 UTC 
Yellow over white won't really work no matter how hard we try imho, unless we add a fill and outline or something. Maybe something like #DFAC07 could be """"passable"""", but the contrast ratio would be only 2 in the best of cases which isn't really acceptable still. Maybe we should revisit specific parts of the breeze palette or the breeze icons (combined with ken's massive updates)?
Comment 4 Patrick Silva 2023-11-16 16:19:02 UTC 
On Plasma 6 alpha, can reproduce with krunner, but cannot with kickoff.
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2024-03-16 16:00:51 UTC 
Yeah unfortunately I'm not sure this is fixable in principle. The mimetype icons have fixed colors; they're always going to look bad against *some* background colors.