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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by tirefire on Friday February 28 2014, @05:08PM

    by tirefire (3414) on Friday February 28 2014, @05:08PM (#8607)

    Some say blue is a "safe" color choice, but I hate it. It's boring, and it's everywhere.

    Green is a good color, but I think a fair number of newcomers and infrequent readers might confuse this site for Slashdot if you adopt it. The layout of the site is already so similar that the color scheme is the one big obvious sign you have right now that immediately communicates "THIS IS NOT SLASHDOT".

    The red color scheme is alright. As others have said, maybe it needs to be a little lighter so it doesn't contrast so much with all the white.

    I'm open to user customizable color schemes (who wouldn't be?), or even a white-on-black scheme (black-on-white color schemes make me feel like I'm staring at a light bulb if I'm browsing in a room with dim light).

    But mark my words, if you make the Soylent News color scheme blue, I will organize a SoylentCott, and make my own SN fork, with blackjack, and hookers, and...

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  • (Score: 1) by nightsky30 on Friday February 28 2014, @06:06PM

    by nightsky30 (1818) on Friday February 28 2014, @06:06PM (#8650)

    In fact, forget the SN fork!

  • (Score: 2) by SMI on Friday February 28 2014, @10:32PM

    by SMI (333) on Friday February 28 2014, @10:32PM (#8846)

    +1, Underrated. I've been trying to customize color schemes for SN, too, and found a way here [soylentnews.org].

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Marand on Friday February 28 2014, @10:58PM

    by Marand (1081) on Friday February 28 2014, @10:58PM (#8865) Journal

    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.

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 01 2014, @06:23AM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday March 01 2014, @06:23AM (#8986) Journal

      What about the red used in the logo?

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      • (Score: 1) by Marand on Saturday March 01 2014, @10:03AM

        by Marand (1081) on Saturday March 01 2014, @10:03AM (#9042) Journal

        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, @10:46AM

          by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday March 02 2014, @10:46AM (#9498) Journal

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

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