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[Serenitis]

Fairly sure this has been mentioned before, but it is still something of an issue.

Tri-Tachyon and the player faction have very similar colours, to the point that it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish between them.

This can make reading some info panels (and busy fleet displays) a bit more of a chore than it should really be due to having to read into additional context instead of just mentally separating things by colour.

Would it be possible to look at altering Tri-Tachyon to use a slightly darker blue?

In the above example, the colour setting used was 50,159,236,255

[Twilight Sentinel]

Dark blue on black backgrounds are not great in general.  It would probably be better if one of the two were not blue, but making the player's faction almost white and TT a darker blue would help.

[Serenitis]

Completely agree dark-on-dark is less than great.
Is that blue too dark? I didn't think it was, but we're all different etc.

I'm v. keen on having more obvious contrast between these two factions. But I'm not totally wed to the idea that it has to be via this exact shade of blue.

[Rishel]

It is possible to change the player's color setting? White should be the defaut value.

[Serenitis]

Yes. You can change the player colour.
This also changes many UI elements, and (imo) it's really hard to find one that

• doesn't clash with some already existing colour
• doesn't look in some way 'wrong'

Generally, bright/bold colours are really bad for the player faction as they're hard on the eyes.
Pastel/Softer colours look better on thier own, but tend to blend into everything else too easily.

I'll try a less bright off-white when I get time and see how it looks.

[Megas]

I like the player faction color.  Tri-Tachyon should be the one that gets more blue like in the OP.

Generally, bright/bold colours are really bad for the player faction as they're hard on the eyes.

Yes, this.

[Serenitis]

Tried the white and it's not really ideal.
I used 222,222,222,255

It has decent contrast with everything, but could possibly get a little uncomfortable after a while. Too bright.

Tried again with 222,222,222,235

This is why things are awkward with colours.
I've got the saturation here sat at 235, which is possibly still too bright. But if I go any lower it starts to clash with the Independants.

Set at 222,222,222,210

Same as the original problem, just with a different faction.

The current player colour 170,222,255,127 is fairly nice as it's not too bright, nor does it melt into the background. Seems like it's in a good place so it's probably best not to change it tbh.

[Helldiver]

I think making Tri-tachyon circles/text a bit of a darker blue as mentioned in the OP makes sense since their flag/icon is not actually that light.