A few tweaks I recommend:
Changes I made:
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I added spacing at the top. The top is WAY too tight as is… when looking at it, I feel like I am wearing a t-shirt that is one size too small. Yes fine I should lose some weight but my point stands. More breathing room is needed at the top for sure.
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Having a grey background for preview is a bit problematic, as it buries quotes and is just more “stuff”. I think it’s fine to have it be clear / transparent and float. The “hide preview” text is right under it, so there’s no possible confusion as to what that area is. And it looks good to me, floating, no border needed?
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I made “hide preview” grey to de-emphasize it. There is a fair bit more blue now with the blue bar, so we risk burying the blue reply button which is the primary action … there’s no way “hide preview” needs to be full blue drawing all that attention to itself, as we’ve definitely used up our blue ink attention budget.
(looking at this a bit more I am not sure the topic title should be in blue, either… and definitely not “Create new topic” text)
Overall I am a HUGE HUGE fan of this change, I think it looks so much better, and it’s long overdue!! 