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Suggestion: Use font colors instead of icons

e.g. T-Doll_Production, instead of having HG/SMG/etc icons beside each name, we can use

• [[Simonov|^Simonov #ccc#ccc#ccc]]
• [[Tokarev|^Tokarev #6BDFCE#6BDFCE#6BDFCE]]
• [[Stechkin|^Stechkin #D6E35A#D6E35A#D6E35A]]
• [[Welrod MkII|^{Welrod MkII} #FFCD4A#FFCD4A#FFCD4A]]

this is a sample paragraph this is a sample paragraph this is a sample paragraph that contains white-colored T-Doll, [[Simonov|^Simonov #ccc#ccc#ccc]] and an orange-colored T-Doll, this is a sample paragraph [[Welrod MkII|^{Welrod MkII} #FFCD4A#FFCD4A#FFCD4A]] for testing this is a sample paragraph

Sample table

3:30:00	[[AS Val|AS Val #D6E35A#D6E35A#D6E35A]]	[[FAMAS|FAMAS #D6E35A#D6E35A#D6E35A]]	[[TAR-21|TAR-21 #D6E35A#D6E35A#D6E35A]]	[[SVT-38|SVT-38 #6BDFCE#6BDFCE#6BDFCE]]	[[Simonov|Simonov #6BDFCE#6BDFCE#6BDFCE]]
3:35:00	[[9A-91|9A-91 #D6E35A#D6E35A#D6E35A]]
3:40:00	[[G36|G36 #D6E35A#D6E35A#D6E35A]]	[[M14|M14 #6BDFCE#6BDFCE#6BDFCE]]	[[SV-98|SV-98 #6BDFCE#6BDFCE#6BDFCE]]

Personally, I think it may be a bit confusing to not to stick to a standard for colors(cyan for time, yellow for links), unless we're planning on change the color of links themselves. Pianoforte (talk) 23:28, 20 October 2016 (EDT)

My primary concerns about this idea revolve around legibility as well. Right now, the wiki has yellow links by default, so it's immediately obvious that yellow text is a link. It's not entirely clear that the white text here actually links to anything without hovering over it first - the styling is a bit different than for normal text, but not by that much. I also think that this style of link should be implemented as a template that takes rarity as a parameter, as we don't want people to have to remember the hex codes for each color. ReverseIdeology (talk) 23:44, 20 October 2016 (EDT)

Not everyone might understand the gun's color codes unless we specify it down somewhere. Luciana (talk) 23:45, 20 October 2016 (EDT)

Maybe the links to the guns can have another indicator of their uniqueness. Maybe a dotted underline for example? Maybe with some CSS editing, we can probably turn the hex colors into the rarity colors like: not including the brackets "Simonov|{{doll_name|#fff|Simonov" could be "Simonov|{{doll_name|#2star|Simonov". Mignonette (talk) 23:51, 20 October 2016 (EDT)

You want me to play the devil? The colours are for the rarity, what exactly do they have anything to do with gun types icons in the first place? --Morgan Paradise (talk) 23:56, 20 October 2016 (EDT)

If you read what Dragonjet said, he wants to use the color codes to specify gun types, not rarity. Luciana (talk) 00:15, 20 October 2016 (EDT)

Thanks for the clarification. Well, in this case, I want to here about the advantages of this way over the current one. --Morgan Paradise (talk) 00:27, 21 October 2016 (EDT)

For sample comparison, I've now added a table that utilizes the template. T-Doll production page can look like that

modified the templates, how about those kind of styling? The idea is to use it mostly in lists or tables, but I also added a sample paragraph to see it in the context of them being inline together with plain text. Dragonjet (talk) 23:58, 20 October 2016 (EDT)