Choose from various handcrafted color themes for the UI
A theme can have a huge impact on the vibe and feel of the app when we use it. Since PKM is a personal endeavor, the ability to customize one's thinking environment is important.
Options could involve:
- high contrast | normal
- cool gray | warm gray | neutral gray
- colorful | monochrome
Different color accents and hues
- very warm gray scale+ amber accent colors
- mauve-tinted gray scale + mauve accent color
Capacities will hand-craft all themes, so it won't be possible to insert custom CSS. This would simply generate too many degrees of freedom and potential UI issues. Special themes can however be requested, and if the interest is high enough, we'll develop them for everyone.
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This seems like an easy win to implement given that there are already two themes. Lots of good options out there already as well. For example Bear has some nice themes.
PLEASE DO THIS. Having something beautiful in just the way I want is actually massively important. The existing themes are sterile and a barrier to use. :(
I absolutely think more themes would be great, especially for accessibility. While dark mode is helpful for a lot of people, it is much harder for others to see content. It would be great if the user's set color and contrast themes in the OS was reflected in the app. This helps bring users consistency across all their applications as well as enables them to set colors based on their specific needs. https://www.levelaccess.com/blog/accessibility-for-people-with-astigmatism/
Here is info about color schemes for various types of color blindness: https://colorany.com/color-palettes/color-blind-friendly-color-palettes/
At the very least, there should be a few options for background and text combos.
This continues to be an important issue for me. As a user with astigmatism, I'm forced into using light mode because even the low-contrast dark mode is still quite high contrast. People with astigmatism experience something called halation, which makes light text on dark backgrounds appear fuzzy leading to further eye strain. This is an issue with both implementations of dark mode that are currently available. To improve, a theme that is lower contrast is extremely important. The ideal would be to allow users to customize colors manually. Accessibility needs vary between types of vision issues, and that will account for them all.
To read more about how astigmatism affects technology use: https://medium.com/@h_locke/why-dark-mode-causes-more-accessibility-issues-than-it-solves-54cddf6466f5
I think the ability for custom theming and more control over appearance settings could be a best of all worlds scenario.
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