User:Johan G/Messagebox style sandbox

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Testing out some style ideas for a messagebox meta template (a template template).

The long term goal is to get a way from the mess currently shown in Help:List of messagebox templates. I strongly believe more consistency is less confusing (though to much consistency could hamper creativity).

The testing that is done is done with an old opera web browser.

Colours used

I am borrowing colours from cockpit displays: red (warning), amber (caution), cyan (good) and green (steady good), however green and cyan is not used together it seems.

That is making the intended colours a bit tricky is that two common kinds of colour blindness are inability to differentiate between red and green and inability to differentiate between yellow and blue. One way around the first kind apparently often used in traffic lights is to have the red a bit towards amber and the green a bit towards blue. I do not know about the yellowish amber and blueish cyan, but I am using the same principle there and adjust the hue towards more the more distinguishable colours for that kind of colour blindness, red and green. Looks ok to me, who however do not suffer from colour blindness, as far as I know.

After some time I have come to colours below:

Style Messagebox border and icons Messagebox background
Speedy #000 #ff5
Warning #f42 #ffe0d0
Caution #fc2 #fdf8d8
Note #0cc #d7f7f7
Tip #0c6 #e0ffe8
Protected #bbb #eee
Neutral #bbb #fff

Summary so far

Do note the the texts in the boxes are only some example texts, which happen to be style names considered. The text in the boxes should be centred unless there is something to the left catching the attention, like a thick border or an icon, in which case it should be left aligned.

Use on top of pages or sections and within file information

Used when

On top of sections

On top of file pages

On top of user pages

On top of article pages

On top of talk pages

On top of category pages

Within file information boxes

For speedy deletion template

Speedy

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Speedy

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Action taken or refrained from is required

Warning

Test content

Warning

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Action taken or refrained from is needed

Caution

Test content

Caution

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There is important information

Note

Test content

Note

Test content

There is helpful information

Tip

Test content

Tip

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A page is protected

Protected

Test content

Protected

Test content

Neutral

Neutral

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Neutral

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Use within sections

Used when Within sections
There will be serious consequences in certain conditions

Warning

Test content

There might be consequences in certain conditions

Caution

Test content

There is important information

Note

Test content

There is helpful information

Tip

Test content

Neutral

Neutral

Test content

Source for the above

Used Source

On top of sections

On top of file pages

On top of user pages

On top of article pages

{| style="background-color: #fff; margin: 1px; margin-left: 10%; border: 1px solid #FC2; border-left: 15px solid #FC2; width: 80%;"
| style="padding: 0.25em 1em;"|
'''Caution'''

Test content
|}

On top of talk pages

On top of category pages

Within file information boxes

{| style="background-color: #fff; margin: 1px; margin-left: 10%; border: 1px solid #FC2; width: 80%;"
| style="text-align: center; padding: 0.25em 1em;"|
'''Caution'''

Test content
|}

Within sections

{| style="background-color: #fdf8d8; margin: 1px; margin-left: 0px; border: 1px solid #FC2; border-left: 10px solid #FC2; width: 80%;"
| style="padding: 0em 0.5em;"|
'''Caution'''

Test content
|}

How about some icons

I am quite convinced that in most cases icons will not be necessary provided a short but meaningful word in bold is near where the reader will begin to read the messagebox (most probably about centre in a box without anything catching his eyes attention to the left and for those, about the top left).

That said a well chosen icon may help the reader to perceive some of the context for the messagebox before he even begin to read it, though those short words will have the same function (e.g. Danger, Warning, Caution, Cleanup, Note, Notice, Tip, Hint, Protected etc.)

A small selection of default icons

These icons are for now 48 pixels in square as demonstrated by the immediate triangles. The rest of the icons are shown 24 pixels high. There is no default icons for the "Neutral" style.

Used when Style
Speedy Warning Caution Note Tip Protected
For speedy deletion template Speedy-yellow exclamation in black triangle-48px.png Speedy-black exclamation in yellow triangle-48px.png
A user is warned about imminent blocking or is blocked Warning-white cross on red stop sign-48px.png

The reader is warned about serious consequences

Immediate action or restraint is required

Warning-white exclamation in red triangle-48px.png

The reader is warned about consequences

Action or restraint is required

Caution-white exclamation in amber triangle-48px.png
The reader is given very important information Caution-white exclamation in amber circle-48px.png
The reader is given very important question to consider Caution-white question in amber circle-48px.png
The reader is given important information Note-white exclamation in cyan circle-48px.png
The reader is given important question to consider Note-white question in cyan circle-48px.png
The reader is given information Note-white i in cyan circle-48px.png
The reader is given important helpful tip Tip-white exclamation in green circle-48px.png
The reader is given helpful question to consider Tip-white question in green circle-48px.png
The reader is given helpful tip Tip-white i in green circle-48px.png
The reader is informed that page is protected Protected-gray padlock-48px.png

The following rather self-explaining short-cuts, /!\, (!), (?), (i), (x) and U, could probably be made available to use in an icon or image parameter instead of typing a full file name.

Adding icons to the messageboxes

Or rather trying to... It took quite a few previews of failed attempts to get things in the vicinity of where I want them.

Caution-white i in amber circle-48px.png

Caution

style="padding: 0.25em 1em; padding-right: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 24px;" 150%

Caution-white i in amber circle-48px.png

Caution

style="padding: 0.25em 1em; padding-right: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 24px;" 100%

Caution-white i in amber circle-48px.png

Caution

style="padding: 0.25em 1em; padding-right: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 24px;" 75%


Caution-white i in amber circle-48px.png

Caution

style="padding: 0.25em 1em; padding-right: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 24px;" Two-liner

Caution-white i in amber circle-48px.png

Caution style="padding: 0.25em 1em; padding-right: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 24px;" One-liner


Caution-white i in amber circle-48px.png

Caution

style="padding: 0em 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 24px;" Two-liner

Caution-white i in amber circle-48px.png

Caution style="padding: 0em 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 24px;" One-liner

Testing width of icon

Caution-white i in amber circle-48px.png

Caution style="padding: 0em 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 24px;"

Caution-white i in amber circle-48px.png

Caution style="padding: 0em 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 0px;"

Caution-white i in amber circle-48px.png

Caution style="padding: 0em 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 1px;" Might be an ugly hack, but let's go for it for now.

And icon sizes

Caution-white exclamation in amber circle-48px.png

Caution 48 px icon

Caution-white exclamation in amber circle-48px.png

Caution 40 px icon

Caution-white exclamation in amber circle-48px.png

Caution 32 px icon

Caution-white exclamation in amber circle-48px.png

Caution 24 px icon

Caution-white exclamation in amber circle-48px.png

Caution 16 px icon


Caution-white exclamation in amber circle-48px.png

Caution

Two-liner, 40 px icon

Caution-white exclamation in amber circle-48px.png

Caution One-liner, 24 px icon


Caution

Two-liner, no icon

Caution One-liner, no icon


Caution-white exclamation in amber circle-48px.png

Caution

Two-liner, 40 px icon

Caution-white exclamation in amber circle-48px.png

Caution One-liner, 24 px


Caution

Two-liner, no icon

Caution One-liner, no icon


Caution-white exclamation in amber circle-48px.png

Caution

Two-liner, 40 px icon

Caution-white exclamation in amber circle-48px.png

Caution One-liner, 24 px


Caution

Two-liner, no icon

Caution One-liner, no icon

Smaller vertical padding for one-liners

Caution-white exclamation in amber circle-48px.png

Caution One-liner, padding: 0em 1em;


Caution One-liner, padding: 0em 1em;


Caution-white exclamation in amber circle-48px.png

Caution One-liner, padding: 0em 0.5em;


Caution One-liner, padding: 0em 0.5em;


Caution-white exclamation in amber circle-48px.png

Caution One-liner, padding: 0em 0.5em;


Caution One-liner, padding: 0em 0.5em;

Testing out CSS classes

Used when

On top of sections

On top of file pages

On top of user pages

On top of article pages

On top of talk pages

On top of category pages

Within file information boxes

Speedy deletion

Speedy

Test content

Speedy

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Action taken or refrained from is required

Warning

Test content

Warning

Test content

Action taken or refrained from is needed

Caution

Test content

Caution

Test content

There is important information

Note

Test content

Note

Test content

There is helpful information

Tip

Test content

Tip

Test content

A page is protected

Protected

Test content

Protected

Test content

Neutral

Neutral

Test content

Neutral

Test content

Use within sections

Used when Within sections
There will be serious consequences in certain conditions

Warning

Test content

There might be consequences in certain conditions

Caution

Test content

There is important information

Note

Test content

There is helpful information

Tip

Test content

There is helpful information

Neutral

Test content

Useful resources

Web and MediaWiki

Sources for inspiration