IMPORTANT: Color Scheme

Even though we have a suggestion forum, many people aren't suggesting color themes. Right now is very crucial for us in terms of Color themes, so this thread is being made for everypony to discuss themes. You are to ONLY discuss themes. You are not to discuss anything else. Try to be as descriptive as possible when discussion the theme so we can accommodate.

Keep in mind that this is a Pony forum. We're trying to go for Happy, so an entire "Black on black" theme is definitely not going to happen.

way too pink. Make it sky blue.

I'm not too partial. I think it would be more important to match it to Sabb's designs. I think whatever he wants to work with would be best.

Da_Chi wrote:I'm not too partial. I think it would be more important to match it to Sabb's designs. I think whatever he wants to work with would be best.

I posted this because Sab wants to know what to work with =P. Having a color scheme that's permanent would make Sab's job much easier XD

To be honest I'd say go with neutral - dark colours. bright colours are mainly stress to the eyes. The colours now look nice to me though. Lilac/grey and purple seem to be nice on the eyes and look pretty too.

I agree with Arch. The current colours are nice.
Though any muted pallet is best

Black or dark grays. Non too enthusiastic about screaming primaries as forum color. Bioware.social has a really good scheme that makes it easy to read. White is most def a no-no. It hurts my eyes on longer visits.
Dark it has to be anyway. Text can be white or gray.
Current is bit too light.

I do agree that it's quite bright. It's probably because I'm not a avid fan of bright colors.

As everyone else is saying, the current scheme is a little to frilly and bright for my taste. Perhaps a dark sky blue would cover it nicely?

Can I just be honest here? The grey.. Ew

Da_Chi wrote:Can I just be honest here? The grey.. Ew

Lol, if you weren't honest, I'd be disappointed =P

No, the gray is perfect. Yes. Stick to this!

I'd be okay with grey, but it does not fit the theme of the site.

Theme of the site is what we make of it. Screaming primaries and rainbow color scheme WILL prevent me from posting.
Make primary as dark blue, as the dark grey is now and change text to white/gray. Black to the now dark grey areas.


That would make the theme Luna, the missing pony. Then it fit's the theme of pony.

Cthulhu-Pony wrote:Theme of the site is what we make of it. Screaming primaries and rainbow color scheme WILL prevent me from posting.
Make primary as dark blue, as the dark grey is now and change text to white/gray. Black to the now dark grey areas.


That would make the theme Luna, the missing pony. Then it fit's the theme of pony.

Hmm.. A Luna theme might work. We shall see =P

Cthulhu-Pony wrote:Theme of the site is what we make of it. Screaming primaries and rainbow color scheme WILL prevent me from posting.
Make primary as dark blue, as the dark grey is now and change text to white/gray. Black to the now dark grey areas.


That would make the theme Luna, the missing pony. Then it fit's the theme of pony.

Personally, that just seems a little TOO dark. But I can work around that. For the most part I'd just like to avoid having white text as the default.

To me the current grey theme is great in terms of brightness, but it seems.. dull. It seems like it needs more colour. What that colour would be I don't know (I class white, grey and black in combination as dull colours.)

Yeah, this is perfect as far as the brightness goes. It really does need more color tho.

And why the hate towards light text? It works really well IMO.

Cthulhu-Pony wrote:Yeah, this is perfect as far as the brightness goes. It really does need more color tho.

And why the hate towards light text? It works really well IMO.

Brighter text, yes. white text is hard on the eyes to read for some. so no.

Cthulhu-Pony wrote:Yeah, this is perfect as far as the brightness goes. It really does need more color tho.

And why the hate towards light text? It works really well IMO.

Possibly, I'll have to try it out and see how it looks, but it's really because we've spent our lives reading black text. Reading white text on black just seems so backwards. But I bet it can work if it's tweaked just right.

i would like to have purple blue pink and white. going from darkest from the top to lightest to the bottom.

Cthulhu-Pony wrote:Theme of the site is what we make of it. Screaming primaries and rainbow color scheme WILL prevent me from posting.
Make primary as dark blue, as the dark grey is now and change text to white/gray. Black to the now dark grey areas.


That would make the theme Luna, the missing pony. Then it fit's the theme of pony.

This is exactly what I had in mind as well.

Darker colors tend to work better on forums, and since ponies are usually so bright it will contrast well.

I liked the sky blue theme, grey is so...dead...

I do like Ist idea of having light colors contrast with the darker colors.

Frustration96 wrote:I liked the sky blue theme, grey is so...dead...

This is only temporary, we're just trying to get the general consensus for now.