wiki/design
CSS
Custom Page CSS
You can add custom CSS to a page by using the <raw> tag. For example, see the CSS on the home page.
Global CSS
MediaWiki provides a global CSS file that can be edited like a wiki page.
User Styles
When you're logged in, you can edit a stylesheet that applies only to yourself. You can find the link under Special:Preferences, it will be a page named like User:Aaronparecki.com/common.css.
Resources
The resources below were useful in choosing colors and design of this wiki.
- http://leaverou.github.io/contrast-ratio/ - Check the contrast ratio of two colors. Useful when deciding what color text to put onto a colored background.
- http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ - another contrast ratio checker; WebAIM has additional accessibility tools as well.
- https://github.com/okayjeffrey/Scalor - Generate many shades of a set of 5 main colors.
- http://www.0to255.com - another color variation generator
- http://paletton.com/#uid=60q0t0kFAHm+-oWT2uAm-vT8ata - another color variation generator