Ugly buttons

[DeeBye]

The subdued tones from DeeBye, whose color sense is very good, are just a bit too flat, IMO, and WarBlade's orange are consistent with your theme and bright enough for the eye to catch on the buttons most frequently used.

Good point. I originally yoinked (stole) the colour gradient directly from a screengrab I took while browsing the LL forums (I believe it's the "topic title" gradient). I can see how the same colour gradient in both the topic title AND the accompanying buttons would be a bit drab. Confusing, too.

Okay, so I took my original button template...

...and increased the red in it.


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Here are a couple of samples with some text hastily applied.

I used the Arial font for the first one.


And, on a lark, I tried out Abaddon for the next one (Yes, I realise that the text is off-center. I saw it while previewing this post. Easily fixed.)


I suppose it doesn't look too bad, and I think I can increase the font size a wee bit more if I had to. This would give it more definition. It might work out quite well.

Keep in mind that I am copying the current buttons' general layout as I go about this. I have a fair bit of leeway to alter quite a lot of the general design. The only thing I am pretty adamant on sticking with is (are?) the dimensions of the button.

FYI, the size is 94x30 pixels, including the transparent border which is necessary to allow for the curved corners. I could gain a few pixels in each direction if I nuked the whole "curved corners dealie-schmealie".


-DeeBye