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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Marand on Friday February 28 2014, @06:58PM

    by Marand (1081) on Friday February 28 2014, @06:58PM (#8865)

    I voted green, however I would be okay with red if it were modified slightly. I like red fine in general, but I find the current SN colour to be hard on my eyes.

    I agree about skipping the blue; I like blue, but it's too common and thus extremely boring on site designs. Wouldn't mind purple, as someone suggested elsewhere here.

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 01 2014, @02:23AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday March 01 2014, @02:23AM (#8986)

    What about the red used in the logo?

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    • (Score: 1) by Marand on Saturday March 01 2014, @06:03AM

      by Marand (1081) on Saturday March 01 2014, @06:03AM (#9042)

      Maybe. Ignoring the gradient on it, the wrapper logo uses three reds that, used together, might make a good starting point. Doing something about the pure whites on the page could also help -- the problem for me is that most of the site is #FFFFFF white or that dark red.

      If trying to use the logo as a basis, the first thing I'd try is using something close to the wrapper base colour for the titles, with the user name/time line a lighter red like the wrapper highlight, and darken the comment area to something like #F0F0F0.

      Light themes are good, but you don't want to overdo the pure whites. Look at something like play.google.com -- it's a light theme, definitely, but most of the light portions are #F4F4F4 or #EEEEEE, with #FFFFFF reserved for drawing your attention. It's bright without being eye-searingly bright. This is something pipedot and slashdot also get wrong, IMO, but on those it's mitigated by the lighter, more pastel colours they use.

      I know they most likely have higher priorities than messing with this, considering they're trying to keep the news rolling while wrangling with the old slashcode, but I'd be willing to help where possible, and I'm sure people better than me at this stuff would help as well.

      On a related note, are they planning on changing the category icons? They, along with the site logo, look like they're placeholders to me, but I haven't seen anyone soliciting new ones or anything.

      • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:46AM

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:46AM (#9498)

        Playing around a bit, I think #eeeeee is best for the comment background.

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