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civicrm.css, line 80

currently:

#crm-container select {
border:1px solid #494949;
font-weight:bold;
vertical-align:middle;
}
change to:

#crm-container select {
border:1px solid #999999;
vertical-align:middle;
}
and change line 91, border style to #999999 to match.

Reasoning:
1) there's no reason to bold the select dropdown text. It makes it difficult to read, especially if there are a lot of select boxes on a page.
2) just visual preference, but I think the lighter border color is easier on the eyes.

Hey Brian,

Agreed when it comes to the border - changed it in rev23363.

However, with bold text in selects - the idea behind it, since the screen contains really a lot of different elements (many fields, labels, etc) was to distinguish parts of it which represent data. That's why bold text in inputs and selects. IMHO, that's actually makes the screen a bit more readable. Let me know what you think.

Thx,
m

When I think about it, it's true - bold field contents was introduced in prototypes, when there was no background. While my personal preference is still to keep it bold, I started looking at the screen in a bit more holistic way and I think it needs some final touch. For example, I don't like fieldset nested within accordion - too many "frames in frames" - it could use some simplification. On that occasion we might drop or keep bold field contents. Could be good to reach out to broader group for opinions, maybe a quick discussion within advisory group?

Thx,
m