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ColorPalette: Improve color name readability #50450

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Fixes #48119

What?

Improve readability of the color name and value by moving it off of the color swatch.

Why?

See #48119 for more context and conversation, but in short having the text overlayed over the currently selected color can create contrast issues that are difficult to navigate due to the number of variables. One of these is that selecting a text color that will contrast well with the checkered pattern used to represent transparencies is likely going to be very difficult.

How?

By moving the color name and value down below the swatch, contrast with the color itself and the transparency pattern are no longer a concern. The only contrast we'll need to worry about is the background color.

Notes

  • While the color name handles theming/dark mode well, the color value does not currently update based on theming changes. That said, the gray used currently is still visible when the current dark theme example is activated in Storybook.
  • Similar to that, the border/box shadow does not update for darker backgrounds, and is pretty much lost on Storybook's dark theme example. I need to look more into both of these issues.
  • I don't love how the popover changes size when a color is selected or cleared. In the current iteration, the name and value appear and disappear as needed. I'm wondering if it would make sense to leave that space visible at all times, and just leave it blank, or put some placeholder text like "Default color" in for the name until a value is selected. That way the sizing of the component could be consistent at all times.
  • Potential followup: working on this has got me wondering about our goals with displaying the CSS variables as color values. Is that info helpful to the user? Would we be better off displaying the actual color instead?

Testing Instructions

  • View the component in Storybook, confirm that it shows the color data correctly and consistently. This includes the formatting and display of hex values vs. CSS variables.
  • View the component in the editor (e.g. when changing text or background color of a paragraph block), confirm that it shows the color data correctly and consistently.

Testing Instructions for Keyboard

  • With ColorPalette open in Storybook or the editor, press Tab once to focus the picker button. Then press Enter/Return to select it.
  • Use the arrow keys to move the slider and select a color.
  • Press Esc to close the popover
  • Press Tab once to confirm the focus moves to the first CircleOptionPicker option, confirming these changes don't alter the tab sequence.

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👋 @jameskoster! Requesting your expert design input! I'm basing this PR on your recommended design. Initially I've set it up to only display the new section below the color picker button if a value is present... but I don't love how it pops in and out of view, making the popover's size change when a selection is made or cleared:

Screen.Recording.2023-05-11.at.13.09.03.mov

Would it be better to make that new section always visible, even if it's empty when no value is selected? Something like this:

Screen.Recording.2023-05-11.at.13.29.57.mov

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Thanks for the ping @chad1008, I agree the jumping is not ideal. There are a couple of options we might try...

First of all we might hide the white 'details area' when the color is unset, but have the transparent texture occupy the same overall footprint. Similar to your second video just without the empty area.

But I suspect that will give too much visual prominence to the texture. So perhaps this is an opportunity for us to communicate that the color is unset? In these cases, instead of the color name the label could be "No color set", and the 'value' could be "Transparent". This might even help a bit with #43082. For custom colors the label could be "Custom".

What do you think?

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I love the idea of some default text for unselected values! My one concern with "Transparent" for unset values though would be that it won't always be accurate. When using ColorPicker for text color, for example an unset value isn't transparent.

I'd suggest we go with 'default' for now, to keep with the existing patterns mentioned in the issue you've linked. It has drawbacks, but if/when a more holistic solution is adopted we can revisit then. How does this look?

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That's a good point.

In that case, I don't suppose the value portion of the text is really adding anything useful, and we might hide it in this context. "No color selected" and "Default" kind of amount to the same thing, with the former being more user-friendly.

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Perfect, thanks @jameskoster

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andrewhayward commented May 22, 2023

If the unset value is not always going to be transparent, is there a way to visually communicate that? ... It would be nice to know what 'default' actually represents.

I definitely agree. The more I play with this component, the more that starts to bug me 😆. I don't think it's something the component can currently do, but I definitely want to defer to @mirka or @ciampo, as they've worked with it a lot longer than I have.

From my understanding and work with it though, it would be dependent on the consumer passing an initial value prop, which is currently optional. Come to think of it though, even that wouldn't do the trick if isClearable is true, because when we clear a color we currently assign undefined to the value prop... so once an initial value was modified and then cleared, we'd be back to square one.

I could be wrong, but I think we might need a new prop to handle that, something like defaultValue that could be passed in and used whenever value is undefined. That way the consumer could have control over the default. In the case of the editor, it would probably mean some extra logic on the consumer side as well, to pass in the correct default from the theme or pattern or whatever applied in a particular case. 🤔

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ColorPalette: improve color name readability
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