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How is it the site with one of the most conservative designs -- Github -- has by & large the most colors? From memory, I only see a few shades of gray when I pi

by k3n 14y ago

How is it the site with one of the most conservative designs -- Github -- has by & large the most colors? From memory, I only see a few shades of gray when I picture the site, though I know there's a few colors that accent the UI, but hell, 331 is more than the entire old "web safe palette". I wonder if there's some sort of anomaly or bug causing the number to be so high... perhaps they use far less images, and instead use CSS instead? Maybe they have a CSS-based color-picker somewhere in their source?

pflats 14y ago
Among other things, I'm sure syntax highlighting doesn't help.
- nickknw 14y ago
  That would be my guess as to what's propelling it so high.
- k3n 14y ago
  Ah yes, that. I can sleep now!
J-H 14y ago
lots of different shades of grey?
- ericgsmith 14y ago
  ...50?
nickknw 14y ago
I think there is a bug. I ran it on my own site (http://nickknowlson.com http://nickknowlson.com) which is pretty simple in terms of colour. I got a large list of colours (33!) that contains colours I can verify are not in the stylesheet or present anywhere on the page. EDIT: Nevermind, false alarm. Forgot about the syntax.css file for pygments.