AntiOnline Color Suggestions

I've loved AO from the start... but I gotta wear sunglasses every time i visit the site. I'm not a big fan of the "Blue's Clues, Barney and Big Bird" color scheme. I'm a graphic design student, and I pulled some notes from my lectures. I feel the triadic color scheme (cyan magenta yellow) isn't as effective as, say a monochrome one.

About yellow:

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Joy, happiness, optimism, idealism, imagination, hope, sunshine, summer, gold, philosophy, dishonesty, cowardice, betrayal, jealousy, covetousness, deceit, illness, hazard.

When overused, yellow may have a disturbing effect; it is known that babies cry more in yellow rooms .

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Most of that blows. Blue usually looks good...


About blue:

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Peace, tranquility, calm, stability, harmony, unity, trust, truth, confidence, conservatism, security, cleanliness, order, loyalty, sky, water, cold, technology, depression, appetite suppressant.

Blue is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.
Blue is considered beneficial to the mind and body. It slows human metabolism and produces a calming effect. Blue is strongly associated with tranquility and calmness.

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So I attached a monochromatic color scheme I agree with. I encourage AO and JupM to pick it up, for my vision's sake. Maybe it will encourage people to hang around longer on the site.

Thanks!
Soda




EDIT

New version- attactched HTML in zip, CSS changes.

I notice that you highlighted all the negative aspects of yellow without placing much emphasis on the "joy, happiness" and other positive aspects. Besides, all that is merely an opinion of some jumped-up graphics designer who gets paid to make up stories about what colours mean. Even I, with my non-existant artistic talents, could do that.

As for this: "babies cry more in yellow rooms ."

that has got to be one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. Painting your room yellow isn't suddenly going to make everyone burst into tears. It's a sad thing when money is being wasted commissioning pointless research like the one that came to that conclusion.

I SOO agree with pwaring. I come here for the content of the site! Not the design and I don't except Jupiter Media to put money to do the site for you eyes!

Honestly, I agree with you 100% about the research being ridiculous. My focus is on 3d, and when I have to do holistic junk like that, it's a waste. But it's an easy fix, it doesn't cost **** to do it. It took me like 10 minutes just to switch a couple colors.

If someone painted my room yellow and purple, I'd be pretty pissed...

Actually , i like Soda's theme very much. :)

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Originally posted here by MemorY
Actually , i like Soda's theme very much. :)

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Is Design is way too dark for me..

Maybe Intmon can do multiple theme for color and stuff of AO.

PHPbb has a user defined theme option, I have no experience with vBulletin's options, but that would be neat if we could choose.

Here's one last version, edits from my own and SDK's critiques. After this I'm probably done. but who knows. :p

I quite like the new scheme, maybe it is time for a change...

Why not throw out a few color schemes into the addicts forum or something, and have a vote. I only say Addicts because that would generally keep people from using more than one account to vote with. That, and the fact that most of the "permanant" members are addicts or seniors.

Worst thing that happens is JupM saying no.

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Originally posted here by Soda_Popinsky
Honestly, I agree with you 100% about the research being ridiculous. My focus is on 3d, and when I have to do holistic junk like that, it's a waste.

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If your focus is on 3D then why are you so interested in a web site - when the web is generally 2D? (okay so you can have buttons and 3D images, but beyond that there's not much scope for depth).

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If someone painted my room yellow and purple, I'd be pretty pissed...

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So would I - but this isn't your room we're talking about.

As for the proposed new colour scheme - I don't really care what colours AO uses, so long as I can read it.

Still to dark for me. Their is no contrast between the title background color of a table and the overall background color of your table.

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If your focus is on 3D then why are you so interested in a web site

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I'm a graphic art major, with a 3d concentration. But I've been doing web design for a few years.

Pwaring: It's no big deal. Everyone's got different tastes. If you'd rather have yellow and purple, that's fine. I just think it would be cool, like SDK sort of suggested, to have multiple themes that can be changed by a member function. Just a suggestion, not a revolution.

This is simpler: Emotional Response to Color - ( http://www.gamedev.net/reference/art...article438.asp )

I think that AO needs a design change, and following the colors of the Logo might be a cool idea, but your demo design seems to lack...feeling? I like the color blue and black myself, but I think it would act to depress visitors to AO, or make the website too "cool." Sort of a "rainy day" effect. It seems to lack contrast and feeling, and makes computer security look too cool overall. The original moto: "Hackers know the weakness in your system, shouldn't you" probably used the color yellow to highlight the threat posed by hackers/crackers and other internet criminals. I think it gives the website some life, although it is a very annoying color.

If there is a design change, it should probably be more than tossing colors onto the existing theme. It should make some sort of ultra-sweet futuristic interface. With a complete redesign of the site's many images, including AP related images. Perhaps the current logo could stay, but if a color change is wanted, I think that a deeper redesign is in order to meet the colors better. If I have any time I might make a demo of what I have in mind. But it will probably suck :P

Okay, so I make really ugly user interfaces in the Gimp...

Just wanted to post what I did, although it really is nothing like I envisioned it...