A lot of people seemed to think the colours meant something specific, that also wasn't in the text.

But it was just a correspondence thing - if the text said "yes" then it was one colour, if the text said "no" it was a different colour

I tried to use less saturated colours + distinguishing shades between each row, but that's even harder to read, I feel

wait, how about something like this?

ok, I removed a lot of pointless information, changed how the colours worked and where they were. So now we have this:

@lizardsquid (You may also want to alternate shades by lightness value, so lighter and darker shades alternate. That'll also make it understandable on older hardware with less color depth or B&W e-ink, as well as being purely about physical accessibility.)

@Zero_Democracy I'm not sure how to do that, because each colour corresponds with a recommendation, and you might have 2 of the same recommendations in a row

@lizardsquid Ah, okay. In that case, maybe just tack some sort of alphanumerical citation on if it's not overcomplicating things.

@lizardsquid It's good otherwise, though. Not a lot of fiddly bits or things fighting for visual priority. Looks like it'll scale well between resolutions.

@Zero_Democracy what do you mean by an alphanumerical citation?

@lizardsquid If it's just about categories, maybe something like "REC." "NOT REC." etc along the right edge of the box, or a numerical rating that corresponds to the colors in whatever order descends or ascends. Otherwise it's probably overcomplicating it.

@vudw a 2-3 color spectrum? what do you mean?

@lizardsquid Green-to-red along that color spectrum, or blue or another color for special notes of interest. Of varying shades. Like the ones to skip in red, ones to watch in greens, and in-betweens in lighter shades. Those maybes could maybe get a blue. (just as a vague maybe-confusing example!)

@vudw it already is along a colour spectrum - from red to blue, with partial as yellow to distinguish it

@lizardsquid Maybe I'm just bad with colors then, sorry. xD

@lizardsquid I assume this is basic HTML & CSS?

Instead of styling the td background with your meaningful colors, consider styling one or two of the td's borders to be a thick solid line with the color instead, and leave the td background inherited from the tr background.

@arielmt it's not currently HTML at all, but perhaps that's a good idea! Can't exactly do that in this program, though

@lizardsquid maybe join the Season column with watch and details so there wont be a border on the whitespace

@fokkfeis Sorry, I don't understand what you mean?

@lizardsquid like the season row that a different color has little dots between the columns, might look better without them so the color is constant through the row

@fokkfeis oh right, make it just one big row with no gaps

I will do that, although I can't actually do it in the program I'm using, I'll have to do it after I convert it to html

@lizardsquid alright my dude :)
btw whats the page purpose? like a tv show/movie reviewer on per episode/series basis ?

@fokkfeis it's a recommendation guide on which classic Doctor Who episodes to watch and which ones to skip

@lizardsquid that makes sense to me!

although - is there a meaning for the bold titles vs the italic titles?

@verity yes - the ones in italics are ones with missing episodes

@lizardsquid I didn't hate them! I was just down into fidgety details because that's how I look at things when they seem to work in a basic sense.