Fiddling with lj colors, or....

[nancylebov]

Nothing is as I would wish it to be.

As some of you may notice, I've tweaked my journal colors. I think they go together reasonably well, but now I think they're too purple and don't go with the *bright!* yellow and red ladybug, so more research is required.

In any case, I'm going back and forth between a millions of html colors page, the customize journal page, and my journal to see the effect of my changes. Is there something handier which would let me click on a part of my page and then on a color? What about saving past changes?

At least I realized that LJ uses all the html colors rather than the 256 safe colors, none of which go with each other.

Comments

[captain-button.livejournal.com]

I hadn't noticed, but then I mostly read you on my friends page.

But I'm a crotchety old fart who would be fine with old fashioned white text on a black screen. And maintains that most thing in computers would be better if they had less fancy gimcrackery but worked *fast*, instead of the traditional wait of 5-30 seconds for anything to happen.

I think that is the real root of the alleged computerial promotion of ADD, that you keep switching to other things while waiting for the first thing to load. But that's another rant.

Also, all you damn kids get off my lawn!


Edit: Besides, all these colors just oppress us color-blind people!

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

You inspired me to tweak mine, too.

Like captain_button said, i mostly read you on my friends page. I use colored headers an my flist, and so i'v updated you to match your journal, which is my usual inspiration for people's colors, unless i have some other strong association for them. :)

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

I read you through my flist, so I see my nice boringly generic style. But if I do look at your new colors (like in the above poll), I can't read the names of people commenting (black on very dark purple).

[avram]

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[avram]

Or generate some colors out of the icon, using this palette generator. Here's an image URL to plug into it:

http://www.grumer.org/lj_images/20081113-ladybug.jpg