Hello awesome coders,
Following up on my previous thread in the feedback section: Differentiate Reading & Meaning - #24 by tls
I am struggling immensly because the Reading and Meaning questions use the same colour background.
Can someone provide a script or theme that alters the colour of either of them 
It would turn WaniKani from nearly useless to absolutely perfect for my use.
PLease and thank you
But youâve acknowledged in your graphics that the reading has black there (as opposed to the meaning which has light grey) - that is the colour difference you are requesting. If the whole background is changed to black, you are not going to know if it is for a kanji or for a vocab item.
The function of the background behind the character itself is to tell you what kind of card it is - blue = radical, pink = kanji, purple = vocab.
For vocab cards which are single kanji, itâs important to know the difference between them - for example ć±±, which will also come up during level 1, is ăă as a kanji card, but ăăŸ as a vocab card.
Iâm guessing auto-kanjification or something interferedâŠ
ăă as a kanji card, but ăăŸ as a vocab card
Ah, yeah.
Could have sworn Iâd proofread thatâŠ
As mentioned, thatâs going to cause you a lot of problems as soon as you start learning vocabulary that are the alternate readings for the kanji and vice versa. The pink versus purple is how you know if WK wants the kanji (pink) or the vocab (purple). Without the colour variation, both cards will look exactly the same but the answers will be different and you will have no way of knowing which to type in.
Nah, not exactly the same - kanji cards have âKanji Reading/Meaningâ written in the black/white bar, while vocab cards have âVocabulary Reading/Meaningâ. Though, if youâre already not paying attention to the âReading/Meaningâ bitâŠ
Which OP seems to struggle with, I get that (they mentioned in the other thread they donât pay attention to the words at all). So if words arenât going to work, theoretically you would need FOUR different indicator colours:
Kanji (pink) reading
Kanji (pink) meaning
Vocab (purple) reading
Vocab (purple) meaning
Maybe a solution could be likeâŠ
Kanji reading: Black on pink
Kanji meaning: Pink on black
Vocab reading: Black on purple
Vocab meaning: Purple on black
or something. It would be incredibly niche for a userscript but might work.
Yeah, you would need 5 different colors, when you factor in radicals.
Radicals could safely stay blue I think, since they only have one card?
If thatâs the frame work then donât we just need two colors? The two new ones. AnywayâŠ
I can imagine a script that lets you choose your own colors wouldnât be that niche, you just would not have many people separating item types into different colors.
Yeah, we just need two additional colours for the reverse of pink and purple. (if pink always means kanji meaning and purple always means vocab meaning).
Iâve felt bad pointing OP to a script request without actually offering to make such a script. But you can now check out my attempt here
Note that it does not change the pink/purple of the kanji/vocab part of the review screen, mostly because that part of the screen does not indicate whether itâs a reading or meaning question. It should still be possible to alter that background color, but it requires more logic and messing with the layout (usually the less you mess, the more stable the script is upon changes to the main page).
Iâm so used to the default wording and colors that this script really woke me up - but that wonât hold for more than a few review sessions. I wonât properly know if it does anything for my own confusion until much later.
How did your script work for you? any new text color scripts out yet?
Am actually still using it! Iâve gotten very used to it, but the Japanese/English indication is still much clearer to me than Reading/Meaning.
Iâll try it then, thank you. What I was originally looking for was to change the text color of the kanji itself. But maybe this way will be less distracting.
