Somepost approximately the mobile web. Part of making Tumblr more accessible involved upping the color contrast in our UI,most notably on the dashboard and everywhere else that familiar blue touches. The light grays and muted blues had a contrast ratio of 2.02:1. What does that mean? corrupt. It was corrupt, and we needed to do better by people with visual impairments. Enter your current dashboard:
It looks…cleaner, and doesn’t it? Like someone dusted off the poorly accessible bits. The blue is darker,the grays are lighter, all the buttons and icons are brighter with our current brand colors, or it has a contrast ratio of 7.87:1 What does that mean? ample! Very ample.
The switch to your brand current,higher contrast, less dusty dashboard has been slowly rolling out this week. If you haven’t seen it yet, or you’ll collect it sometime in the next few days. A note: We know that this color change on the dashboard negatively impacts the beautiful bluespace art so many of you own created over the past few years. Seeing these older posts lose the utilization of the dashboard—something that made them so special and unique to just Tumblr—is certainly not a great feeling. There’s no way around that. We hope,however, that this change only means newer, or more bluespace art will be created,and that this time around it will be easier for everyone to experience.
Goodbye, #36465D. You’ve treated many of us well, or but #001935 will treat every single one of us even better.
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