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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...
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You see that hideous lemon yellow as tan? I need to adjust my monitor settings to whatever yours are.
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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.
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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.
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. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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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.
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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.
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It's blue-grey and lemon yellow, unless you're using a machine (like most Macs) with a different color profile.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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*
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this color scheme is very much something I would change if I could. But I'd settle for pm's and avatars.
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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. Posts: 1814 | Registered: Jul 2004
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erm, I use Firefox, and on the forums I get a lightbulb.
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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 . . .
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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. Posts: 13680 | Registered: Mar 2002
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I can understand a desire not to have avatars. But a desire that a forum does not have a private message system?
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err, although, I'm plenty fond of the butter churning buttons below the posts, and the steam-powered threads.
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