Forum background color and font :( «12...Next Go

KittKat7147

PLEASE consider changing the background. The color makes my eyes water - seriously. Also, the font is difficult to read.

Missing the old forum format that was much easier on the eyes

60smusicluvr

I agree. At first I could deal with it and didn't understand the fuss, but after looking at it for so long it's almost unbearable. It's just way too bright. If you are planning to make a petition on this, consider me signed!!!!!

Elf67

The font and background remind me of the horrid look of IOS 7, only at least I can read parts of the forum. The light blue font needs to go-can barely see it, let alone read it unless part of it is in all caps!

jcp011c2

Completely agree. I get on here and within 5-10 minutes I have a headache and eye strain

jermani

lol..it did'nt bother me until i read this now my eyes are watery from trying to see the fonts and getting a slight headache.

ashcrash19

Totally agree! I, too, at first thought it was okay, but the lime green mixed with the bright white is hurting my eyes! Please, EA, fix this!

Alpal425

I personally like it. Don't hate me! I just like it how it's all modern plumbob color. Wait, this is TS4 colors! If you can't handle these colors, you can't handle TS4!

jcp011c2

I guess that settles it - I can't handle Sims 4 then.
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Simmerville

I agree to most of this. My first thought when I entered the forum was *what?* Font is hard on the eye, and the blue color doesn't help a bit (mostly on the indexes). Also find the indexes hard ti navigate, there is too much info packed together and no vertical lines to sort the info. I would prefer the TS3 forum layout anyday... I guess it's early days and some adjustments might occur, but still can't help wondering why the current design got a "Go!".

zorba2357

The green doesn't bother me too much. But then I haven't spent hours and hours here yet either. A choice of a few different color schemes would certainly be nice. Maybe something like sky blue or pale blue, grey, black.

Erja888

I like the font, but I don't like the color. My eyes start to hurt when I look at the forums (i.e. background color) for longer than 20 minutes.

LuckySky

I post from my phone so I can't see the desktop format. From my phone everything is all white and blue.

Shadoza2

I find the font starts blurring after reading several posts. The green bothers my eyes; however, I can adjust my internet window so I don't see it at all.

Hansku

Agree.
I'm fine with the font but this green is bit too bright for my eyes.

Simmerville

Hm, I wonder if the layout might work much much better on smaller devices. I think it might become too bright and tough on the eye when watching it on a bigger monitor. Somehow I feel the text lines are too long, too, it gets easier to read if I scale down the TS4.com window, but that is not how a desktop browser is supposed to work... I'm on a stationary pc, maybe that's old fashioned these days,

Shadoza2

Simmerville wrote: »

Hm, I wonder if the layout might work much much better on smaller devices. I think it might become too bright and tough on the eye when watching it on a bigger monitor. Somehow I feel the text lines are too long, too, it gets easier to read if I scale down the TS4.com window, but that is not how a desktop browser is supposed to work... I'm on a stationary pc, maybe that's old fashioned these days,

I do not think using a desktop is old fashion as they tend to be larger and faster than the more mobile versions. I have a huge monitor and I scale it down to clip all the green off the sides. The font does trouble my eyes after a while...but I probably should be here all that long anyway.

KittKat7147

It does take some getting used to, but using ctrl+ to zoom in will allow you to eliminate most of the harsh green on the sides. You'll just have to remember to zoom back out (ctrl-) when you go to a regular web page. Also, I do find that the font is not as bad when zoomed in to this degree.

Still wish EA would make the site more accessible without the irritation of inevitable eyestrain unless you go to lengths (zooming) to avoid it

MarLin114

I definitely agree that the font and background blinding white should be adjusted. I can only spend about 5 minutes here looking at the new site and then I have to close it down. I've tried zooming out, but the bold font is still annoying and with the bright white background and the letters start to bleed together.

And toning down the bright green would be much appreciated also.

WaytoomanyUIDs

There are several tools like GreaseMonkey and Stylish for Firefox that can adjust the look of a web page. Until EA provide alternative looks, using one of those to change the background color might be the best solution

EDIT: I've been looking how they work, looks like you need some knowledge of javascript and and CSS to create a style in them. Which I lack, unfortunately.

Nefje

I made some new styles for this forum: Changing background and font on forums.thesims.com.


Before


After

For example: this style will change the font to Arial (less bold) and reduce the line spacing. It will also change the forum background to Dragon Valley.

MarLin114

@Nefje...Sweet! I started looking this over and bookmarked the site page. I'm short on time at the moment but will go back to it tonight or tomorrow.

Thank you!

Back for a second to ask: Is there a way to tone down the bright white and make the blue font darker? If that is already covered on the site page, apologies for asking a question that's covered.

Nefje

@MarLin114 You're welcome




I made a new style with a darker white background and blue font. Is this better or do you want it even darker? If you have other suggestions, let me know

MarLin114

Nefje wrote: »

@MarLin114 You're welcome

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I made a new style with a darker white background and blue font. Is this better or do you want it even darker? If you have other suggestions, let me know

@Nefje - This new style with the bright white background toned down and the blue font darkened is PERFECT! I just installed it and I love it . Thank you so much!

Nefje

After posting the style, I saw that links were almost invisible. So I made the font a little bit lighter. Sorry for the confusion. I'm not sure if you have the second version or the first one.


First version.


Second version.

But I'm glad you like it

MarLin114

I have the first version installed now. I can check out the second version to see how that looks too. I appreciate this so much

Wow! Updating was really easy, I'm impressed! The second version is better because I can now see the 'new style' link in your post, but I couldn't see it with the first version unless I hovered over the words. If the blue was a tad lighter your link would stand out more, but I'm extremely happy with the way it looks.

Nefje

No problem.

I know what you mean. I made a third version with a lighter blue so you can see the links better It's hard to find the 'perfect color' for everyone. Personally I find this one better, but you can decide for yourself.



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If you want a slightly different color, you can edit the following code of the style:

a {
color: #1C8AB2;
}

You can try a image editor or this site to find your perfect color.