Ask HN: Did GitHub just change the default link color?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13766846

by xlr • 9 years ago

23 20 9 years ago

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Did Github switch from a lightweight blue/gray to blue/purple link color? The folder icon also changed. Why the strong colors?

tobihrbr• 9 years ago

Just thought the same thing.

ezekg• 9 years ago

Yes, looks like they made colors throughout the site more vibrant. The new colors are slightly straining to look at, especially with brightness at 100%. Maybe I'm crazy?

kentor• 9 years ago

You're not crazy. I think the people who want such colors (which I'm guessing is a very small minority) should use a custom css, instead of straining the eyes of the majority of users.

soulchild37• 9 years ago

My eyes feel kinda uncomfortable after looking at it, perhaps they are just playing with designs

lordchtsai• 9 years ago

The new green color in pull requests kind hurting my eyes.

wirddin• 9 years ago

Yep, they're now using a darker blue. At first I thought it was flux :D

jsmeaton• 9 years ago

I'd just upgraded to Sierra and wasn't sure if color profiles for monitor had changed or something.

zhangweifang• 9 years ago

I thought there was something wrong happened on my monitor.

undefinedblog• 9 years ago

This change is so frustrating, I can barely look at these blue links. What is happening in Github, did they just launched a new UED head?

hunvreus• 9 years ago

Lots of small incremental changes; buttons, inputs and textareas (different hover/focus styles), ... Not surprising considering they rolled out the new header not too long ago.

idevnull• 9 years ago

Flash on my eyes, when I opened github today.

maarooth• 9 years ago

Me to.

How can we ask them get back the previous color.

Thank you.

ishitatsuyuki• 9 years ago

GitHub should fire their style engineer immediately.

This color scheme is literally XP.

anaganisk• 9 years ago

c'mon why so serious, it's so easy to ask to fire someone. Do you really think the style engineer just pushed the update all by himself without anyone taking a look at it?

fiedzia• 9 years ago

I see no other explanation.

drdator• 9 years ago

current web design trend is using the most annoying / eye hurting colors possible.

ivanbrennan• 9 years ago

Yeah, they had such nice colors for so long. All of a sudden they subtly tweaked all the colors to be awful :(

xpl• 9 years ago

This is awful. How did they come up with that?.. Reminds me of pre-Web2.0 internet.

eirannejad• 9 years ago

Horrible. What's happening to github!

hsh• 9 years ago

what have they done. This looks like a party blue.

Ask HN: Did GitHub just change the default link color?

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