Honestly, I can't believe there wasn't already a theme for the GOC.
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Honestly, this is a rather boring theme. It works, and it all looks fine — Black Highlighter gives a reasonable floor for theme presentation that it's hard to go under, so any theme that uses it as a base will look fine — but that's as far as goes. There's nothing interesting about how it was done: it's just BHL but shifted blue, really. I just find it incredibly lackluster and bland.
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What could this theme do differently that would make it more suitable for representing the GOC?
I mean, it's fine for representing the GOC. It's just not interesting while doing so.
It could do anything with the header other than a monocolor background. An image of some kind, a gradient, using the diagonal-stripes variable somehow, a lot of things. It could play around with the white/gray/black monochrome variables and make some of them different from the BHL base. It could add CSS details to the theme - additional gradients or further modifications from what happens through variables. Use fonts in an interesting capacity — this changes everything to Roboto, which has no pop.
There are a lot of things you can do with BHL beyond a simple color shift. This doesn't do any of them. It was simple to produce and doesn't really have much going on above or under the hood.
Also — I'm noticing this has a nonsubstantial amount of bloat code. White-monochrome, pale-gray-monochrome, gray-monochrome, swatch-headerh1-color, swatch-headerh2-color, rating-module-button-color, rating-module-text-color could all be removed without any changes to the appearance of this theme. Header gradient could go from this:
--header-gradient-color-bottom: 44, 74, 120;
--header-gradient-color-middle: 44, 74, 120;
--header-gradient-color-top: 44, 74, 120;
--gradient-header: linear-gradient(to top,
rgb(var(--header-gradient-color-bottom)) 100%,
rgb(var(--header-gradient-color-middle)) 100%,
rgb(var(--header-gradient-color-top)) 100%);
To this:
--gradient-header: linear-gradient(rgb(44, 74, 120), rgb(44, 74, 120));
In my opinion, a CSS theme should be evaluated upon the aesthetics it makes and the code it produces. The code of this needs work, as I outlined above. As for the aesthetics, it's unimpressive and unambitious. It's aesthetically boring. It does nothing to capture my attention. I really feel that an article being boring and bland is a clear downvote.
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Hey stormbreath, thanks for providing your input!
For the record, I'm terrible at coding, so yeah, there's definitely going to be a notable amount of bloat code. If you'd like to clean it up, you have my permission to change it as you like so long as the theme still works.
As for the aesthetics, I designed this mainly off of the real life, actual UN website, which, agreed, is not that aesthetically interesting. That's the main reason I used a monochrome header, and the font choice is Roboto, which is identical to that used in the actual website.
To be clear, the vast majority of my work put into this was just learning CSS and trying to find a palette to best represent the GOC; I selected the current colors because they resemble the colors of the album OK Computer, sort of like how the GOC is inhuman and uncaring, and associated with death. Outside of that, all I've done is change the font and create a custom high-quality GOC simplified logo.
If you've got any suggestions for improvements, please let me know, I just wanted to let you know my reasoning behind what I did.
Thanks again!
Now that it's published, I can say this: I had seen the Ex Officio Theme when I made this comment, and it inspired a lot of my critique. Looking at these two themes side by side it's readily apparent how much more interesting the Ex Officio theme is compared to this. It's fresh and unique, and this is just boring.
If you'd like to clean it up, you have my permission to change it as you like so long as the theme still works.
No thanks. I'm not doing your work for you.
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