Ask HN: What's with funky colors of HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2035236

by ajaimk • 16 years ago

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Skywing• 16 years ago

Christmas?

bigohms• 16 years ago

Kwanzaa?

DirtyPowder• 16 years ago

My guess is Holiday Spirit.

ry0ohki• 16 years ago

bah humbug

keiferski• 16 years ago

Festivus.

pedalpete• 16 years ago

Nice to have a christmas theme, but I think the new colors point out just how much a simple color choice can affect readability/usability.

My eyes were thankful when the top bar was scrolled off screen, but the alternating number colors are really challenging.

I opened it up in firebug and tried #fff for link text and it looks better on the topbar, but the footer become unreadable.

I'm not sure why I find the alternating colors so distracting, and am not sure about how to improve on that.

IChrisI• 16 years ago

One thing that bugs me is that the Y logo is still on an orange background. It makes sense, but it doesn't work on the red bar. It stands out too much.

tome• 16 years ago

I've got topcolor set and so I can't see the new color on the top bar. Does anyone have any idea how to unset topcolor?

terrym• 16 years ago

I don't, but if you want to have the holiday theme, you could always set it manually to #BE2828.

rbreve• 16 years ago

black color font on dark background doesn't look good

lukev• 16 years ago

I for one like it. Easier on the eyes than the normal scheme, IMHO.

pokoleo• 16 years ago

Halloween.

DanI-S• 16 years ago

That's the standard colour scheme...

babeKnuth• 16 years ago

It's a trick.

Or a treat.

Ask HN: What's with funky colors of HN?

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