From 304d0f358160ab58f7ccc1bd03bf69ccb6e7981e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Rose <est.michael@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 16:33:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Improve accessiblity of default skin by increasing color
 contrast

---
 _sass/minimal-mistakes/_page.scss      | 6 +++---
 _sass/minimal-mistakes/_variables.scss | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/_sass/minimal-mistakes/_page.scss b/_sass/minimal-mistakes/_page.scss
index 815499d..458733a 100644
--- a/_sass/minimal-mistakes/_page.scss
+++ b/_sass/minimal-mistakes/_page.scss
@@ -352,11 +352,11 @@ body {
 
 .taxonomy__title {
   margin-bottom: 0.5em;
-  color: lighten($text-color, 60%);
+  color: $muted-text-color;
 }
 
 .taxonomy__count {
-  color: lighten($text-color, 50%);
+  color: $muted-text-color;
 }
 
 .taxonomy__index {
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ body {
 .back-to-top {
   display: block;
   clear: both;
-  color: lighten($text-color, 50%);
+  color: $muted-text-color;
   font-size: 0.6em;
   text-transform: uppercase;
   text-align: right;
diff --git a/_sass/minimal-mistakes/_variables.scss b/_sass/minimal-mistakes/_variables.scss
index 2da9089..5f66e1e 100644
--- a/_sass/minimal-mistakes/_variables.scss
+++ b/_sass/minimal-mistakes/_variables.scss
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ $type-size-8: 0.625em !default; // ~10px
    ========================================================================== */
 
 $gray: #7a8288 !default;
-$dark-gray: mix(#000, $gray, 40%) !default;
+$dark-gray: mix(#000, $gray, 50%) !default;
 $darker-gray: mix(#000, $gray, 60%) !default;
 $light-gray: mix(#fff, $gray, 50%) !default;
 $lighter-gray: mix(#fff, $gray, 90%) !default;
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ $background-color: #fff !default;
 $code-background-color: #fafafa !default;
 $code-background-color-dark: $light-gray !default;
 $text-color: $dark-gray !default;
-$muted-text-color: mix(#fff, $text-color, 35%) !default;
+$muted-text-color: mix(#fff, $text-color, 20%) !default;
 $border-color: $lighter-gray !default;
 $form-background-color: $lighter-gray !default;
 $footer-background-color: $lighter-gray !default;
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ $youtube-color: #bb0000 !default;
 $xing-color: #006567 !default;
 
 /* links */
-$link-color: mix(#000, $info-color, 15%) !default;
+$link-color: mix(#000, $info-color, 20%) !default;
 $link-color-hover: mix(#000, $link-color, 25%) !default;
 $link-color-visited: mix(#fff, $link-color, 15%) !default;
 $masthead-link-color: $primary-color !default;
-- 
2.43.0