Comments on: Text Colors

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:28:19 +0000

Is there a firefox extension that underlines all hyperlinks? There’s a setting in the Preference/General/Fonts and Colors dialog, but in order to override the website’s settings, you need to change the colors as well. I just want to change whether the link is underlined or not. Thanks!

By: Xenon_54

Xenon_54 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

If you are wondering how do things look to blind-colors people:
http://www.vischeck.com/examples/

You can also check your website with a blind-colors simulator:
http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php

And of course, some colour pickers:
http://www.colormatch.dk/ (Internet Explorer only :/)
And another a little bit more complex:
http://www.madcorp.biz/colormapper/index.php

By: Xenon_54

Xenon_54 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I forgot: Have nice vacation!

By: MadDog31

MadDog31 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Nice article/reminder Corrie. Xenon...GREAT LINKS! They will all be bookmarked!

Ian

By: junjun

junjun — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Good advice.
Many use red as color for required fields etc on forms, so be careful there as well.

More here:
http://www.iathink.com/2004/01/seeing_red.html

By: Ray Oliver

Ray Oliver — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Makes sense, but what about having links appear as bold and un-underlined?

By: dhecker

dhecker — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Euch.. Jakob Nielsen!

By: Xenon_54

Xenon_54 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

"Makes sense, but what about having links appear as bold and un-underlined?"

And now, how do you make a part of your text as an emphasis? (bold or strong for XHTML)

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

This was linked to before on Simon’s blog (I think), but it’s an excelent look at how usability doesn’t have to be Jakob Nielsen style dull..

By: AlexW

AlexW — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Makes sense, but what about having links appear as bold and un-underlined?

Then you're asking your users to learn something new (I.E. that what they currently understand about identifying links doesn't apply here, and there's a special new way of doing it here) without any discernable benefit to that user. It's no easier to find the links. There's just something else they have to remember about this particular site.