A Tribute to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme (2005)

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kbelder• 2 months ago

Not in Windows, but in my teens I happened across a very similar color scheme on my Commodore 64, and used it for quite a while.

Something about red text on a yellow background made pixel-level details on my television set seem much crisper. The default light-blue on dark blue, for instance, was much blurrier. I'm not sure if it was an illusion, or something actually grounded in the display technology of old CRTs.

riedel• 2 months ago

Do you still remember hotbot's color scheme? I guess back in the days we all were brave and less boring.

lxgr• 2 months ago

Palm OS (5, I think?) had a few unhinged ones as well.

I sometimes miss the time when UIs didn’t take themselves too seriously.

nekooooo• 2 months ago

palmos4 had butterfly, which really let you generate some horrors

LocalH• 2 months ago

The true story of the Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247605

A Tribute to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme (2005)

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