Can gradients be "turned off"?
ninapaley opened this issue · comments
Someone on fecebook asked this: "Is it possible to turn them off?....Never liked gradients."
IS it possible to turn them off? Toggle a switch, and the gradient fill turns to standard (usually specified as white) solid fill color? If it is possible without too much work, please consider this a request.
Heh, that's funny, I was actually wondering the same thing--I like the gradients, but I also liked the "flat" look before they arrived, and I thought it might be nice to be able to toggle them...
I think it should be possible, especially if we default all gradients to be solid white. Another thing we could try doing is analyzing the gradient itself: if more than 50% of it appears to be either white or black, we just force the whole thing to be entirely that color.
One thing to consider is what happens if there are gradients that don't include white or black, e.g. a gradient that's kind of like the rainbow symbol, where it has colors completely separate from fill/stroke. Should those gradients be "flattened" too? Or only gradients that use stroke/fill somewhere in them?
If defaulting all gradients to solid white is the easiest, lowest-hanging fruit, I say do that. Easiest is best. I have used solid black for some fills, such as the tree trunks; solid black should stay black. But wherever there is a gradient, even if it doesn't have a stroke, filling with solid white should work.
One thing to consider is what happens if there are gradients that don't include white or black, e.g. a gradient that's kind of like the rainbow symbol, where it has colors completely separate from fill/stroke. Should those gradients be "flattened" too? Or only gradients that use stroke/fill somewhere in them?
The rainbow symbol is unique. I say it shouldn't be flattened; it should always be its colorful self.
Ok sounds good!
Hmm, are there actually any symbols that use non-fill/stroke (i.e. non-black/white) colors in gradients yet? Aside from #138, which featured an accidental use of near-black? I don't think the rainbow uses a gradient (it was working before I added support for gradients, at least) and if you don't have any plans to make uniquely-colored gradients anytime in the near future, then I don't need to worry about accidentally "flattening" them (adding logic to detect for gradients that shouldn't be flattened will take extra work).
Other than the rainbow, the only non black/white symbols are errors on my part. There may still be some hidden about; if you ever find any please let me know so I can fix.
The rainbow does not use a gradient, it's just bands of solid fills.
Ok I think I fixed this in #148!