Hello Kendy, here's another idea for the look of the menu bar in Windows: I think the easiest way to make it look better right is to just use the same gradient from left to right – removing the very complicated triangular gradients to the sides.* Therefore, can you maybe try with a simple gradient with the following properties? width: inner left light border to inner right light border height: 35px @ Segoe/9pt/96ppi (higher/lower for other menu font sizes) top: #FFFFFF00 (15% from top: #FFFFFF0F) (70% from top: #FFFFFF96) bottom: #FFFFFFC8 [The steps in parentheses aren't strictly necessary, but the first should avoid the gradient looking too harsh over dark backgrounds, the second should improve readability a bit.] I've attached a mockup of the approximate look. Do you think you could make this work? (Also, sorry for saying that making the menu font black were simple – I clearly spoke with ignorance there.) Astron. * In the future, we could possibly put an SVG image under the menu to achieve an effect more similar to MSO 2010, but clearly this is not the time for such a proposal.
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