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Re:Show HN: Releasing my first real open source project – Ca... by dustyneuron on Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:34PM (#7073943)
Looks very pretty, as does the semantic markup. Personally I'd prefer it if there was a little less alpha, e.g. on the Malta pic the text isn't so clear...
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Re:Show HN: Releasing my first real open source project – Ca... by jbranchaud on Thursday January 16, 2014 @09:48PM (#7073982)
I played around with different alpha values. I also created the themes (neutral, light and dark) to help with this.

Do you think it would still be better to bump the alpha value up to 0.8 or so?

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Re:Show HN: Releasing my first real open source project – Ca... by dustyneuron on Thursday January 16, 2014 @10:06PM (#7074045)
I just had a play myself and I like somewhere between 0.8 and 0.85. I'm not a designer though and lean a lot more towards clarity vs style.

When using it I wouldn't want to have to manually pick a theme based on the pic, as it would probably be a database gallery - but a choice of themes is great to have.

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Re:Show HN: Releasing my first real open source project – Ca... by jbranchaud on Thursday January 16, 2014 @10:24PM (#7074094)
This is a good point, I will have to have a heart to heart with the alpha value.
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