Links look not that good (in Chrome), troubles with styles?

[metacortexplus]

There are dotted underlines under links.

[TikhonJelvis]

Yeah, some of those links look a bit off.

We added the dotted underline to help visually distinguish links inside body text—the purple and black color scheme didn't have enough contrast otherwise, and a full underline looked rather dated.

How can we visually distinguish the links in a way that looks better?

If the main problem is that the video links specifically look bad, I imagine we could have some dedicated styling for the video cards specifically that makes it clear that they are clickable without needing the underline.

[ilyakooo0]

Some other browsers (like Safari) still render solid underlines.

I personally think solid underlines look a lot better than the dotted ones.

[enmcarv]

Suggestion: This issue to be closed with a PR addressing the navigation link color contrast issue

Why?

• I can't reproduce any dotted underlines using Chrome or Firefox.
• The contrast between the nav links does not meet WCAG 2 AA contrast ratio requirements.
  • Mitigation: Darken until standard is met with #717171
  • Question: Do we think the links still need to be distinguished more? I think having them be bold or underlined with a solid line are both great options.

I'm happy to pick this up if the reframing and proposed mitigation sound good.

[TikhonJelvis]

The link styling was updated a few weeks ago in #271.

The contrast issue is definitely worth fixing. Thanks for spotting that! Your suggested color for the navigation menu looks great to me.

I was mostly thinking about distinguishing links in body text rather than the nav menu, and those seem fine with the solid underline that they have today. Having an underline for the navigation menu seems less important because it is clear those are links based on their position and layout. We could still do that though, and based on the screenshot above it would look fine.

[enmcarv]

Perfect! And great thread in the linked issue, it would indeed be nice to have some input from a designer. Small, isolated fixes could introduce a lot of visual inconsistency.