[Jeff Vader]

Dibs on pink!

[Dilmah G]

EDIT]

...getting publicity for the issue of pretentious colour usage of longtime forum members.

Oh, sorrrrrrry.

I may have pulled an all nighter in addition to all my other sleeping difficulties. Calling it pretentious would've ran counter to the rest of my argument; I was thinking pretentious use of colour after reading Fury's post and appreciating what his viewpoint was and that must've passed somewhere between my head and keyboard whilst typing and ended up in there. I've got no beef with you, mate. fix'd.

[TopAce]

Honestly, I don't see what the issue is. HLP's color theme is back, and the three aforementioned users post with the same color we have gotten used to. There's nothing illegible about them anymore.

(However, I endorse Fury's use of hard-to-read red as a rhetoric device, even though I don't agree with his view.)

[Scotty]

i call this one!

I pick this colour. You'll find that I only use it when I'm dead serious about whatever I'm writing. I do not use it that often because HLP is not a place that I expect myself to take seriously 99.99% of the time, like Dettol.

The Internet may be serious business for other people, but not for me. I will not let it be for me.

Unlike the three members that you've mentioned, Fury, who each have special colour tags for their own use, no one else has. I could use #9966CC all over the forums, but even though I memorise the hex code, I'm too lazy to use it. The same will apply for most other members.

With all due respect, Fury, you need to back off. If the issue was ignored right from the beginning, nobody will give a hoot. However, by pressing the issue, you will draw more and more attention to it, which is not always the brightest idea in the world.

You guys both suck.

[General Battuta]

So where are my Battuta tags? 

[Androgeos Exeunt]

You guys both suck.

And you're covered in chicken excrement. Your point?

[iamzack]

I changed my mind. I want this one. Anyways, I'm super special too, why don't I have iamzack zags. :< I DEMAND TAGS.

[Jeff Vader]

iamtag. Whee!

[iamzack]

[iamtag]Does it wark?[/iamtag]

awww...

[Scotty]

iamtag. Whee!

That'd be funny enough that I'd have no problem with it.

[Kolgena]

i can haz dis culler.

[Snail]

If you're gonna do it, do it right, man.

[Scotty]

Dear lord, that's literally invisible.

Not just hard to read, but honestly the exact same color as the backgroudn.

[Kolgena]

Didn't find a word for the proper color, so I kinda just put black and said "screw it"

[Qent]

It looks just a tad off to me, but that is nominally the exact color of the background. It must be ClearType doing weird stuff.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Probably.

The gradient's interlaced, now that I'm looking at it so very closely. There's nothing wrong with that, though.

[Herra Tohtori]

Post text colours aside, I would like to suggest black background and medium green text for code tags. Reason being that green monospace font reminds me of the greenscreen displays of the olden days and thus it is awesome. There are other, more scientific reasons too; green is the colour that human eyes are most sensitive to, and people with glasses of strong prescription will not suffer from the text separating into red, green and blue pixel components due to colour aberration on the lenses (this happens to of all the time with white objects on dark background). It would also be immediately identifiable as code section.

[Iss Mneur]

Post text colours aside, I would like to suggest black background and medium green text for code tags.

That is a fine idea! 


Though just about anything is an improvement over grey text over a lighter grey background.

[Hades]

Dibs on pink!

No sir, I already chose pink a page back!

[iamzack]

Can I really has an iamtag? i want i want i waaaannnntt

besides, you know it'll take like ten minutes for me to forget to use it anymore. :|