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Re:War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war ... by suid on Friday July 10, 2026 @03:01PM (#48863826)
Grumble about the graphics choices: dark-grey-on-black-with-other-dark-colors is a terrible color scheme, that renders the borders nearly invisible.

There's a reason print maps have a standard set of colors, with very light blue for oceans, white for land backgrounds, and a variety of dark colors for features. The "modern white-on-black web aesthetic" only really works for text- and figure-heavy pages, where you must then use very light colors (white, yellow, light orange, light green) for features/lines.

Re:War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war ... by jtroll on Saturday July 11, 2026 @06:46PM (#48876565)
Ahh, sorry mate. Yeah I'm a fan of dark mode stuff. I deliberately tried to dial everything on the map back so empire borders would pop more.