Václav Vančura

vancura@mastodon.design

Design engineer at Red Hat. Previously: Microsoft, Xamarin, game developer (since ZX Spectrum times), and photographer (since, like, ever). Currently building a WebGPU game engine BLIT386.<a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ux</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/ui" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ui</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/iconography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#iconography</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/icons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#icons</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#photography</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/fedi25" class="mention hashtag"

Posts

Post #1933790
A baker once asked me what plans I had with my sourdough. First post on the new blog. Welcome. https://vancura.dev/articles/many-plans
Post #1933788
If you&#39;re on Tangled, I am vancura.dev. https://tangled.org/vancura.dev
Post #1825511
Two new high contrast themes shipped in @podmandesktop 1.27 – hc-light and hc-dark. Most of the work wasn&#39;t the themes. It was ripping out hardcoded colors and replacing them with semantic tokens, so buttons, progress bars, and spinners stop fighting on theme switch. The spinner now respects prefers-reduced-motion too. A11y work is invisible when it&#39;s done right. Probably why it slips. Read more: https://podman-desktop.io/blog/podman-desktop-release-1.27 #Accessibility #A11y...
Post #1700444
Interesting. Clearly (https://github.com/Shpigford/clearly, https://clearly.md) uses XDR (Extreme Dynamic Range) white (and super bright blue) headroom colors in its application icon. You can see this effect – where bright white areas can appear even brighter than standard white – in the Dock and in Quick Look on the .app bundle, but not when viewing AppIcon.icns directly. I’ll explain why below. 🧵… (1/6) /cc @marcedwards @stroughtonsmith