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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, hey, I like the bold idea.  Did you try it out?  (I can if not….)

> On 25 Jul 2019, at 21:02, Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-07-19 19:03, Jeff Young wrote:
> 
>> I’ve been thinking of using the magenta colour for both net
>> highlighting and cross-probing, and then using the bright red we use
>> today for cross-probing for selection.  This does mean that selections
>> would no longer have differentiated colours within (between
>> components, wires, etc.), but I think might work better than the
>> not-very-noticeable state we have today.
> 
> I toyed with this a bit and I'm not a huge fan.  Turns out I actually use the color differences for context when working.
> 
> What do you think about darkening + bold (say width * 1.2)?
> 
> -Seth