I'm not a very observant person in general, but I literally JUST noticed that on Hatrack threads, the post background color alternates between tan and gray.
It seems so obvious now, I can't believe I never saw it. The colors and the format fit together so well that you just don't see it! Good job to whoever did the web design.
Now I'm looking at all the threads and seeing what color they start on...
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
You see that hideous lemon yellow as tan? I need to adjust my monitor settings to whatever yours are.
Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
Wow. I see a very pale greyish-blue and faint dusty rose color alternating...?
Posted by Wonder Dog (Member # 5691) on :
Lemon Yellow and Dusty Rose? Are you serious? Mine is all black and red... Posted by cmc (Member # 9549) on :
Jane's playing tricks on us again... ; )
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Not really, some of you probably just picked a different default color scheme when you signed up. Pity you can't go back and change it.
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by ElJay: Not really, some of you probably just picked a different default color scheme when you signed up. Pity you can't go back and change it.
O_o
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
*snickers*
But in truth, I fall into the gray/tan camp. On this computer.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Grey/yellow
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
What?? I demand screenshots or you are all liars!
Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tara:
Good job to whoever did the web design.
Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
Maybe we're all seeing the same thing - it's just our eyes that are different. Colours are a cultural construction.
*thinks deep philosophical thoughts*
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Blue/grey and orangey-yellow.
But I already know that I see colors funny. Staring at something pure white, one eye will see in shades of yellow, the other blue. Or maybe it's pink and blue. I forget. Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
quid my eyes do that too!
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
quote:Originally posted by cmc: Wow. I see a very pale greyish-blue and faint dusty rose color alternating...?
This is what I see. And I'm with Tara, I've always really liked hatrack's web design, to the point where it's really hard for me to read other forums, they give me headaches.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Yellow and dark white.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
And I agree with blacwolve about Hatrack's design versus that of other forums.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
White can be dark?
kojabu, glad to know I'm not alone. Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
What I mean is it's an off-white. If the whole screen were that color, I would call it white without thinking twice about it. But since there is actual #000000 white around the edges, if I look at my monitor at an angle, I can kind of see that it's not quite white, that it's a bit darker, but as far as I'm concerned, Hatrack's colors are a lovely white and yellow. Very springy.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
It's blue-grey and lemon yellow, unless you're using a machine (like most Macs) with a different color profile.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
^ What he said.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
On all of my machines, which includes my school laptop, my home desktop, my personal laptop, my wife's personal laptop, and my pocket PC, it's such a light shade of blue-grey that it might as well be white.
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
huh. I was going to say that it used to be yellow and blue-grey for me, but that I just noticed that on my new computer they've faded to grey and tan-peach... then I noticed that my screen was at a funky angle, and that if I adjust that everything goes back to normal. Weird.
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: It's blue-grey and lemon yellow, unless you're using a machine (like most Macs) with a different color profile.
Well that would explain it. I'm on an iMac and I see it as a sort of tan and off-white (I'd call it white, but you can distinguish between the posts of that color and the white border).
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
Link-lettering and/or link-underlines can have their colors changed; including an automatic color change between links which haven't been clicked yet and links to sites already visited.
Been a long time since I fiddled around with the defaults, but I think that the yellow and light grey background is similarly an OperatingSystem-preset which can be changed to default on different colors by the individual computer user.
[ February 15, 2007, 01:30 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I have the dusty yellow and dusty very slightly mauve grey that is the standard here.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: Grey/yellow
quote:Originally posted by TL: What?? I demand screenshots or you are all liars!
Screenshot. Very light grey, and pale yellow.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
It looks like the colors are:
ffffcc
and
f7f7f7
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Looks just like mine. Off-white and yellow. Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
I've got the same colors as Lisa, I had no idea the colors were different for others.
Posted by DaisyMae (Member # 9722) on :
I have never seen a lemon this color.
I'd call it more of a buttercream yellow. Very soothing.
Posted by Darth Ender (Member # 7694) on :
Mine is dark spots alternating with bright rays
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
I'm pretty sure that screenshots won't work to illustrate the differences.
Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
Several weeks ago, there was a thread looking for a way for Jatraqueros to recognize one another. Well, if we all just dress in our "gang colors" that should do it. Anyone for a "buttercream" starter jacket and a dusty rose ball cap worn bill astern?
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
I'm pretty sure that screenshots won't work to illustrate the differences.
they would for the black and red Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: Grey/yellow
I like to think of it as silver and gold.
Posted by Survivor (Member # 233) on :
Yeah, I get Daisy's buttercream yellow. And a real soft grey.
<tr bgcolor="#D5E6E1"> and <tr bgcolor="#f7f7f7">
All you saying it's blue and red and crap are messed up.
Oops, my bad. Xavier had it right. It's "ffffcc" rather than D5E6E1, though that D5E6E1 is a nice color too.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: Yellow and dark white.
Same here.
Posted by Tara (Member # 10030) on :
interesting.
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Well, whatever color y'all call it, it ruined me for good on any other forum. I find them distracting -- their color schemes, set-ups, tags, and all the other fidgety things. *blech*
*loves her Hatrack*
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
this color scheme is very much something I would change if I could. But I'd settle for pm's and avatars.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
quote:Originally posted by Artemisia Tridentata: Several weeks ago, there was a thread looking for a way for Jatraqueros to recognize one another. Well, if we all just dress in our "gang colors" that should do it. Anyone for a "buttercream" starter jacket and a dusty rose ball cap worn bill astern?
With a big blue H emblazoned across it. For the Firefox users. Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
erm, I use Firefox, and on the forums I get a lightbulb.
-o-
I don't think it's a buttercream. I think whoever called it dusty yellow is spot on: it is exactly the shade of yellow that yellow chalk used to come in.
You know . . . back when we used to use chalk . . .
-o-
quote:this color scheme is very much something I would change if I could. But I'd settle for pm's and avatars.
I'm glad we have none of those things, and I like the color scheme. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Icarus: erm, I use Firefox, and on the forums I get a lightbulb.
So do I. Now, try the Preview Post option.
quote:Originally posted by Icarus:
quote:this color scheme is very much something I would change if I could. But I'd settle for pm's and avatars.
I'm glad we have none of those things, and I like the color scheme.
Agreed on all points.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
Yes, but the website itself uses a big blue H. Jeez. Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
I can understand a desire not to have avatars. But a desire that a forum does not have a private message system?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Given the potential issues with having one on a board of this size, and the fact that email works just fine, yes.
I figure Pop is plenty busy now, hmm?
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:I figure Pop is plenty busy now, hmm?
yeah for a bunch of LUDDITES
err, although, I'm plenty fond of the butter churning buttons below the posts, and the steam-powered threads.
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