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Can we make the attribution colour a more friendly green or turquoise?

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I've always found the red attribution colour for imported questions screaming for attention, whereas I think a more gentle serene colour, like green or turquoise would be easier on the eyes.

If the colour needs changing in your view, what would you suggest?

asked Apr 11, 2014 in Feature Request by physicsnewbie [ revision history ]
edited Apr 12, 2014 by dimension10

Maybe, it fits well with the colour scheme after all. But note that nothing can be done for already-imported questions.

commented Apr 11, 2014 by dimension10 (1,985 points) [ no revision ]

I'd vote for light grey. The information needs to be there, but it should be as unintrusive as possible, since it's irrelevant information for the purposes of most readers most of the time.

commented Apr 12, 2014 by Nathaniel (495 points) [ no revision ]

@Natheniel Oh yes, light grey will be even better.

commented Apr 12, 2014 by dimension10 (1,985 points) [ no revision ]

@dimension10 Are you serious? It looks terrible, I can hardly see a thing.

commented Apr 12, 2014 by physicsnewbie (-20 points) [ no revision ]

@physicsnewbie Yes I'm serious. What about this?

commented Apr 12, 2014 by dimension10 (1,985 points) [ no revision ]

Or this.

commented Apr 12, 2014 by dimension10 (1,985 points) [ no revision ]

That looks acceptable to me, as long as most of the text is done in that colour

commented Apr 12, 2014 by physicsnewbie (-20 points) [ no revision ]

@physicsnewbie What? No! The entire site will not be made in that colour.

commented Apr 12, 2014 by dimension10 (1,985 points) [ no revision ]

whoops, I've ruined this comment

commented Apr 12, 2014 by physicsnewbie (-20 points) [ no revision ]
edited Apr 12, 2014 by physicsnewbie

@physicsnewbie You said "all the text", I guess you mean all the attribution text, then.

commented Apr 12, 2014 by dimension10 (1,985 points) [ no revision ]

@dimension10 It's a pity you can't make it more subtle by changing the colour of just the links to turquoise: post imported from StackExchange Physics at 2014-03-03 18:43 (UCT), posted by SE-user Scott Carnahan

commented Apr 12, 2014 by physicsnewbie (-20 points) [ no revision ]
edited Apr 12, 2014 by physicsnewbie

@physicsnewbie What? Just the links? No! That would look terrible.

commented Apr 13, 2014 by dimension10 (1,985 points) [ no revision ]

@dimension10 It looks more subtle, elegant, and very easy on the eyes.

commented Apr 13, 2014 by physicsnewbie (-20 points) [ no revision ]

@physicsnewbie It will be a terrible, unprofessional, colour scheme. I prefer the idea of changing the full attribution text colour to grey.

commented Apr 13, 2014 by dimension10 (1,985 points) [ no revision ]

@dimension10 can you comment an example here with the blue links to see what it looks like?

commented Apr 13, 2014 by physicsnewbie (-20 points) [ no revision ]

@dimension10 and all I've done is change the colour for a link from blue to turquoise. Are you objecting to the colour turquoise?

commented Apr 13, 2014 by physicsnewbie (-20 points) [ no revision ]

This post imported from StackExchange Joking at 2014-03-30 15:47 (UCT), posted by SE-user some user

commented Apr 13, 2014 by dimension10 (1,985 points) [ no revision ]

Illustrated above.

commented Apr 13, 2014 by dimension10 (1,985 points) [ no revision ]

@dimension10 that looks more readable than I thought it would be, but keeping the original blue links in.

commented Apr 13, 2014 by physicsnewbie (-20 points) [ no revision ]
edited Apr 13, 2014 by physicsnewbie

@dimension10 (3 comments up) that looks good to me - nice and unobtrusive.

commented Apr 14, 2014 by Nathaniel (495 points) [ no revision ]

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