When using the "new threads" criteria, all the normally black texts, have gone red. Looks and reads awfully.

Also my name, after Welcome and logged in as, is in red.

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Poul
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yes prefer it in black as well

+ 1 For the return to the Black!

Saludos

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Javier...
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Please return to black. Very hard to read red in the sun.

It was never black before, it was blue, just a different shade.
And the new colour is not red either, I'd say it's brown.

Red is the colour of the triangle at the top right hand corner of your post, or if you're not convinced, check out that ghastly flashing red 'NEW' in the right side bar.

BROWN RED

If it were red, I would advised against it as many males have low sensitivity to red, being in the of longer wavelength in the visible colour spectrum we see.

Anyway I like the new colour very much.
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IMHO red is a great improvement, keep it.
Ben

Ok I hate the Brown colour even more now than when I thought it was red

Dude, what happened to the good old "We are red, we are white, we are Danish dynamite!"? Black is for sissies.

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Poul
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Grant just wondering why you decided to mess with the font colour at all?

It does make it much harder to read in certain light conditions and as pointed out it is pretty damn ugly to boot.

I routinely curse any websites that use fonts with any shades of red but it could just be my 50 year old eyes!

Doesn't really add anything positive IMHO.

It's certainly not red to my eyes but it does look a bit "wishy washy" especially when the text "greys out" after being read.
Anyone who is colour-visually-impaired might struggle with this shade of orangey-light brown.

How about a deeper, chocolate brown?
I like dark chocolate rather than milk choco.

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Dave

I would describe that colour as rust,
something our old bikes know only too well!
Alas it does it harder to read in the sun.

I am colour blind so often green looks blue to me and I can't see red. I did notice what I would call brownish orange and on a white background it is relatively easy for me to read. Start mixing reds/blacks greens and blues and I wont even know there is writing present, so I wont compalin just not know I am not seeing it.

I used to manufacture and sell reading systems for the blind and visually impaired. There is a whole range of conditions out there. There is no one solution as to what is correct. On my systems for the visually impaired clients could choose a base font to any size. (limit a character had to greater than one pixel and less than a screenful). choose their own background and font colours (yellow on black was very common as a best choice). select the distance between characters and lines, also change the height to width ratio of the font.

So I know pleasing everyone will be impossible. But is is easy to antagonise more people with careful selection of gimmicky colours

I need a fairly big size of print so run a 22" at 1152 x 864 This is the highest resolution I can run and still read the text. I used to run at 1024x 768 but had to change up into what is not entirely comfortable for pages to format properly. I know there is stuff to the right of my screen at this moment, off the box into which I am typing. I never see that. so it was a waste of programming time. There was a time when a 17" screen gave me really legible print, but as the resolutions increase so I get to see less and less of what the developers are pushing out. It really is self defeating. Often I have to centre my screen to where the text is because of so much advertising clutter does not leave enough room for me to see the end of the text lines if i leave it left justified. Then I dont get to see the clutter at all.

Thanks for all the feedback everyone!

We've spent the last several hours fiddling with colours, and have come to the conclusion - for now, subject to change! - that blue will work, so we've changed the HUBB and main site to blue-ish links.

It's a softer "steel blue" than the hard bright default blue (that we hated), and we think works well with our colour scheme. We even like the tawny orange bullet points > against the blue - really stands out!

Hopefully you'll all like it, if not please let us know.

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