Twenty Twelve Theme: Text Looks Indigo and Washed Out
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I really would like to choose your Twenty Twelve theme for my blog, but the default text looks as if it is a pale indigo color, and it has a really “washed out” look. It is really annoying and hard on my eyes and I would suspect any reader’s eyes. Is there any way to make it a crisp, distinctive black color? It appeared to me that your $30.00 upgrade just changes font shape and not the color. I was also surprised that Times New Roman was not a font choice. However, the real problem is the washed out font. My computer monitor is high quality, relatiively new, and working just fine.
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“the default text looks as if it is a pale indigo color”
The main text is dark grey. Are you referring to the post titles?“It appeared to me that your $30.00 upgrade just changes font shape and not the color.”
The Custom Design upgrade allows you to change any aspect of the appearance of any element (fonts, colors, sizes, margins, borders, widths – you name it). Most of this is done via CSS editing.“I was also surprised that Times New Roman was not a font choice.”
Browsers normally display a font if it’s installed in the visitor’s computer (except if you use Typekit or other new options that embed the fonts in a site). Times New Roman is a standard font installed in all computers, so when you have the Custom Design upgrade you can use CSS editing to change the font to TNR. The Fonts section in the customizer offers a small selection of Typekit fonts: non-standard fonts you wouldn’t be able to use otherwise.PS Twenty Twelve is a conventional theme: there’s nothing special or unusual about it, so if you don’t like the default colors and fonts you can simply use a different theme. There are many themes with darker font color and serif fonts.
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Thanks justPi.
I was concerned about both the text titles and more especially the main text of posts.
I have reverted back to my old blog theme (Twenty Eleven). Actually, when I was trying out the Twenty-Twelve theme, I pulled my eyeball up to within just a couple of inches of the pixels on my screen and discovered what is causing the washed out look. The individual words in the main body of a post are mad up of alphabet letters that are slightly different in color. For a made-up example, in the word “baby” the letter “b” would be a pale indigo or teal color but the “a” and “y” would look light black or navy blue. Like I said, it’s not my monitor. I get that effect only when I am actually in the Twenty-Twelve theme—nowhere else on the web, not in Microsoft Word, not anywhere.
Personally, I think this is a real shortcoming in this theme that WordPress should make a concerted effort to fix. This sort of thing will eventually cause a loss in customer base. It really was an unpleasant surprise to me. I know you make money by selling themes and upgrades, but it made me seriously consider going to another blog service.
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You’re welcome.
But I don’t really know what you’re talking about. Here’s a partial screenshot I took of the theme demo after I zoomed in as much as possible:
http://wpbtips.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/2012screenshot.png
The text is grey as grey can be.As for “I know you make money by selling themes and upgrades”,
a) notice it says Member under my username, just as it says Member under yours: I’m not a WP representative, I’m an experienced fellow user;
b) no, WP don’t make money selling themes: the themes they design are free. -
Not having any particular problems with the Twenty Twelve default font. I got a little caught up in the exchange and went and looked at my blog. For an instant, the font looked grey. I was surprised; hadn’t noticed that before. Then I realized it was an error in my line-of-sight to the screen on my laptop. To double check this, I tilted the screen back until the font seemed black … and then magnified it to 400%. I assure you that the default font color is black. Perhaps there’s a touch of charcoal in there and we subconsciously pick up on that. But I believe the bigger problem with “washed out” is parallax error, that being the angle the screen is looked at and perhaps some design characteristic in your screen.
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So, first you had the impression it’s indigo, then you had the impression it’s multicolored, and now you think it’s black. Sorry, this conversation is meaningless. Blog title, tagline and body text are grey – hex color code #444444. All the rest (except the post titles and the content inks) are lighter shades of gray: top menu items #6A6A6A, widget titles #636363, widget text #757575.
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You are somewhat confused, sir. I’m a newcomer to the discussion. And my Twenty Twelve default font is black. Blog title and post titles are adjustable. Menu font color is different, more of a grey with the newest post being darker. Other font colors in that menu area will turn to an indigo like color when the cursor is positioned over them.
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Well, argument or not. I think the Twenty-Twelve body font looks like (a cow pie) compared to the way it looks on the other themes. If WordPress decides to do a Twenty-Fourteen, they would do well the deep six that piece of crap in favor of a font that is more crisp and distinctive. Thanks for all of your help. I am out of here.
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