Further lightning retail landuse

[pnorman]

One option presented in #599 was to de-colour the retail landuse farther and adjust the hue of commercial and industrial father into the blue, with values something like

@residential: #E1E1E1;      // Lch(89,0,0)
@residential-line: #B9B9B9; // Lch(75,0,0)
@retail: #F4DAD6;           // Lch(89,10,30)
@retail-line: #DFADA7;      // Lch(75,20,30)
@commercial: #F0DAE5;       // Lch(89,10,345)
@commercial-line: #D8ADC3;  // Lch(75,20,345)
@industrial: #E2DDF0;       // Lch(89,10,300)
@industrial-line: #BCB4D8;  // Lch(75,20,300)
@railway: @industrial;
@railway-line: @industrial-line;

This results in

Industrial on the left, commercial in the middle, retail on the right.

Current deployed is

Another idea was to use blue for commercial, as blue was considered for office=*.

Do we want to do any of these?

[matkoniecz]

To image - I like the proposed retail but I would keep industrial and commercial unchanged.
Is there any blue that would not be confused with water?

[pnorman]

I like the proposed retail but I would keep industrial and commercial unchanged

Not an option, then you can't distinguish commercial from retail. With tweaking I might be able to get the industrial marginally more purple, but nothing significant.

[dieterdreist]

2014-06-10 9:43 GMT+02:00 Paul Norman [email protected]:

Not an option, then you can't distinguish commercial from retail. With
tweaking I might be able to get the industrial marginally more purple,
but nothing significant.

I like this proposal. Maybe retail and commercial could become even more
different (i.e. commercial more blueish)? Still find it hard to spot the
differences, especially when they are not adjacent.

[RobJN]

To my eyes the new retail now looks duller than the industrial and commercial (which seems odd as retail areas tend to be "brighter" in real world). Perhaps somewhere in between the current deployed and this?

[matthijsmelissen]

@pnorman Is this issue still open?

[pnorman]

I'm okay with leaving the colours as is, but others had suggested the change

[matthijsmelissen]

I think the consensus is currently that further lightening the colours is not possible without them becoming too similar. I will close the issue for now, but if anyone has a concrete proposal we can reopen it again.