I can see a few reason why colors might be useful. Not sure if Tapas wants to open up the possibility of rainbow-vomit novels, however.
I would personally not even attempt to read a book if it looked like six different flavors of sherbet.
You bring up a good point, but I have faith that competent authors would know better than to overuse colored text. I also like the idea of adding more text formatting options.I'm certain it wouldn't be too difficult to implement.
I agree that competent authors would likely know better but I also accept that it doesn't remove the possibility of getting otherwise, especially in potentially high numbers
I think allowing for more creativity can only be a good thing.Sure, there might be some people who would overdo it but if we don't try, we can never know how good or bad an idea it is.
Authors who use it too much would likely see comments from users complaining about it, right?
Ehhhh, I'm not sure what use colored font has in novels. Italics and bolding is one thing, but color? Why?
Yes but complaints don't always stop poor behavior. Drastic changes in views an other stats maybe, still there are always persistent types But I digress
Well, you have to be creative. Use a different color for a character's inner voice, for a voice coming from a radio or TV, Or if a character has a split personality. Things like that.
Exactly, low views might be a deterrent for that kind of misuse of colored text.
Perhaps the reader could toggle whether or not the author's color choices are shown or converted to black.
Perfect! Problem solved!
But... isn't that what italics are for? Eh, idk. Maybe it might be a cool concept, but I'm pretty iffy on it. Nice idea though
This sounds like a great way to quickly identify things I don’t want to read...
Like @L_M_S said, there could be an option to toggle it on or off.
I like the idea or being able to use color to emphasize a point but I think it would get abused for sure!
I would use it for greentext memes so but I get what you mean
People abuse knives, does that mean we shouldn't have them? I just think it would be better if we did have colored text. We could also have an option for readers to turn it off.
would be a great idea then you would have those assholes that make their text white knowing the background is white as well
Having an option to turn it off would be a great solution to the abuse problem.
What do I think? I agree.