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Re: "The aesthetic choices behind Lagrange?"
Well, depending on how you define the term, the "base color" could be considered to be the background color of the page.
In the 'gmdocument.c' source code for the Colorful Dark theme, for example, the background color is used as the basis for many of the color calculations, however the background itself is based on the "primary hue" that is the true base color of the theme. The primary hue is a fully saturated color so it can't be used as-is since that would be too overwhelming.
Nov 12 · 2 days ago
@skyjake: Thanks man!
🚀 clseibold · Nov 13 at 06:27:
In graphic design class, you learn a lot about typography and making sure there's space. Lagrange does a good job in these cases. Also, having a max page width so you can get the page centered is something all browsers *should* do, but most browsers don't, for some reason. It makes the reading experience so much better.
The book I used in my Graphic Design University class was "Graphic Design: A New Story (Second Edition)" by Stephen J. Eskilson.
That book might help with some of the other decisions that go into graphic design, but it's also very focused on the history side of things. I learned a bit, but I'm not very good at graphic design at all, so I defer to that book and to @skyjake's previous comments.
Thanks for the reference @clseibold. The max page width in Lagrange does make the text less intimidating!
The aesthetic choices behind Lagrange? — Hi! I'm really fascinated with Lagrange, and how it made me fall in love with reading pure text again... A big part of the merit goes to the Gemini protocol itself of course, but in my case I attribute it mainly to the way Lagrange deals with colors. So I tried looking for info on how it's done, but I only found a technical publication about ANSI escapes and such. Do you guys have links to a more color-theory / aesthetics oriented article about this...