The base ground rules were 4 names that reflected the tonal range of the 4 UI options, with consideration for cultural variance and localization (e.g. Pumpernickel in Scandinavia is not thought of as a dark bread). There was a food theme to start but it opened up a bit. We had beer, coffee, tequila, macaroons, rice, cakes, etc. There were moon phases, seasons, rocks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Steve suggested clouds\u00a0(Cirrus,\u00a0Stratus,\u00a0Cumulus,\u00a0Nimbus– “Because you can’t see ‘Cloud’ used enough these days”), pirate flags\u00a0(Henry Every<\/a>, Richard Worley<\/a>, Stede Bonnet<\/a>, and John Rackam<\/a>), and more. \u00a0My favorite, though, is one he mocked up:<\/p>\n Eventually things died down & the UI ended up with just unnamed color swatches–the right move, I’m sure, but a bit less fun. \u00a0(Hard to say, though, what would happen if one held down modifier keys while clicking them in the Prefs dialog\u2026)<\/p>\n <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hmm\u2026 What would make for a good list of dark-to-light descriptions? As he was working on Photoshop CS6’s new dark UI feature, engineer Joe Ault put in bread-based placeholders for the brightness values:\u00a0Pumpernickel, Dark Rye, Whole Wheat, Sourdough–then solicited suggestions from the team. \u00a0Steve Guilhamet from QE explains. The base ground rules were 4 names […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Pirate_Flag_of_Rack_Rackham.svg\" "\\"theForce\\"")
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