I think the most important thing for me is to make the ruler legible again... tungsten makes it nearly impossible to see.
 

outland144k
 
Now, why Cohen included pink, I have no idea; it's not its own color at all (that is, a primary, secondary, or even tertiary color), but is simply red mixed with white. Granted, we don't call pink "light red" the way we call blue mixed with white "light blue", but it simply doesn't stand on its own the same way the primary, secondary, or tertiary colors do, e.g., you won't find it on a color wheel (there are color wheels that extend to tertiary colors).

Could also be said that purple is not a colour either, being there is no wavelength for purple. It doesn't sit between red and blue as a wavelength, beyond blue it becomes ultra violet, below red, infra red, which we can't see. the colur wheel joins spectrum at it's visible lowest and highest wave lengths. to produce purple you need to produce two wavelengths, but to produce green or orange, you can send just one.
 
I've wondered about Purple as I think it will compliment mercury's blue

Vastman
I think the most important thing for me is to make the ruler legible again... tungsten makes it nearly impossible to see.
 

You should be able to play around with the "color" settings (separate from Theme Editor) for this...

jbraner

Vastman
I think the most important thing for me is to make the ruler legible again... tungsten makes it nearly impossible to see.
 

You should be able to play around with the "color" settings (separate from Theme Editor) for this...

I just tried to see whether this was my oversight or an actual issue.  I did find a solution to changing the color of the font in the ruler so it wasn't black letters on dark grey....However, I think this should just be fundamental to a template... LEGIBILITY... Why should I need to change the color of the font so I can see it???  Seems an essential part of anyones template.
 
Seems to be baked into the template so the template needs to consider this.  Why should we have to go in and adjust an essential function... THE TIME LINE!!!
 
Mercury is fine... numbers on the time line are totally legible... This should be part of all templates... a LEGIBLE timeline.
 
I think.... maybe I'm missing something but...was just trying to do some edits and realized I can't see F in the timeline in any of the alternate templates.  Yes, after 15 minutes I figured out how to make the font yellow or white so it's legible....
 
But shouldn't the templates do this, as a matter of course?  Just sayin'....

You're right.
It comes down to using "colors" vs the theme editor
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Themes-VS-Colour-m3456905.aspx
 
so, until they move the "color" adjustments in to the theme editor (which is sensible, and I think what you want to see) - we just have to have a set of "colors" (just save a preset) for the dark themes (like tungsten) and a set for the light themes (like mercury).

BobbyT
Maybe a royal blue and dark gray theme.....

Like this?
 

 

Vastman
I think the most important thing for me is to make the ruler legible again... tungsten makes it nearly impossible to see.
 

 
Dana, I don't that would take much time, but I'd like to say that perhaps you might want to check your monitor; the ruler is very clear to me.
 
But I if do this for you, which theme would you prefer?

Kamikaze

outland144k
 
Now, why Cohen included pink, I have no idea; it's not its own color at all (that is, a primary, secondary, or even tertiary color), but is simply red mixed with white. Granted, we don't call pink "light red" the way we call blue mixed with white "light blue", but it simply doesn't stand on its own the same way the primary, secondary, or tertiary colors do, e.g., you won't find it on a color wheel (there are color wheels that extend to tertiary colors).

Could also be said that purple is not a colour either, being there is no wavelength for purple. It doesn't sit between red and blue as a wavelength, beyond blue it becomes ultra violet, below red, infra red, which we can't see. the colur wheel joins spectrum at it's visible lowest and highest wave lengths. to produce purple you need to produce two wavelengths, but to produce green or orange, you can send just one.
 
I've wondered about Purple as I think it will compliment mercury's blue

We're talking two different approaches to color; your discussing the physics of it, while I'm talking mixing colors. On a color wheel to the tertiary level (like they use in Art classes), you won't find pink because it's simply derivative of red. You will, however, find Purple.
 
You are correct, of course, coming from your perspective.
 
I'm working on Purple tonight over Tungsten. Then, I'll do HelRazor's Bright Red.

Yeah I got you were talking about mixing pigment, I just find it amazing that we can't see purple and it's a made up colour. I always seem at the mercy of the printers when I produce work for school that emphasizes purple and pink, especially as I tend to use more of a fuchsia pink than a powder

jbraner

I can do 3-D buttons. I'd use Mercsten as a base and color those (I already did the work of transporting the buttons from Mercury there). Dark? How dark?

I mean dark grey like Tungsten buttons. The mercsten I've got has lighter grey buttons - like mercury buttons with a tungsten background.

This is all personal taste of course - but I love mercstun with the darker buttons ;-)

I may have spoken too soon (regarding the 3D buttons). I just tried changing the robin's egg blue to orange. I got absolutely nothing that anyone would ever want to look at. In Tungsten, there's no problem at all as amber is so closely related to orange, but as blue is a complement on the color wheel to orange.....

 
                                                                          
 
I'll keep trying out the 3D buttons (and darkening them). Maybe I'll get it without making the colorizing a week long project, but it's not looking really direct right now.