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Will there be a higher-grade customizable offering for us high-karma old timers who haven't seen a top bar in that color for years? I'd hate to associate myself
by kyro 14y ago
Will there be a higher-grade customizable offering for us high-karma old timers who haven't seen a top bar in that color for years? I'd hate to associate myself with all these Orange Bars.
Buying, nonetheless. Not to wear in public, of course.
- avgarrison 14y agoWhat color do you see? I never realized that the bar changes color.
- jessaustin 14y agoWith sufficient karma (trying to remember: was it 300? 400?), you can set the color you prefer.
- nym 14y agoMine is #bada55.
- itcmcgrath 14y agoIf people want more like that, you can find them at http://hexu.al/ http://hexu.al/
- hfsktr 14y agoThat is awesome. I am so glad I made it this far down the comments to see this link. I know it sounds sarcastic with so much enthusiasm but it isn't. This is the kind of stuff that I like to find. Better when it comes from HN.
- cpeterso 14y agoWhy does HTML think "chucknorris" is a color? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-think-chucknorris-is-a-color http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-thi...
- Yhippa 14y agoInteresting, I did not know that. Anybody know why the bar is defaulted to that shade of orange (#FF6600) in the first place?
- deadairspace 14y agoWhy not?
- jychang 14y agoBecause YC.
- minopret 14y agoI like the question. Until and unless the person who chose it wishes to answer, here's my attempt at a more-than-complete answer. I guess orange may be chosen as a rather eye-catching color. A reddish orange may be chosen to be a bit more tasteful or distinctive. The choice of RGB component values may originate in an older practice in web design called web-safe colors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors). It uses the observation that 33 hexadecimal (let's write 0x33) evenly divides the range of an HTML red-green-blue color component: 0x00, 0x33, 0x66, 0x99, 0xCC, 0xFF. Choosing each of the three color components from among these six values yielded 6^3 = 216 colors, a palette that would fit into a low-end graphics adapter's table of 256 colors with room left over for system-defined colors. Those who have studied Mersenne primes may recall that it is sufficient to observe that 8 is a composite number in order to prove that 0xFF = 0x100 - 1 = 2^8 - 1 is a composite number. And we compute that 2^8 - 1 = 255 which ends in 5, so it's obviously divisible by 5, the quotient being 51 = 0x33.
- jedberg 14y agoIt's Paul's favorite color. It's also the color of the walls at YC.
- kingnothing 14y agoInteresting. I never even noticed the option to change it.
- theyare 14y agohtml > body > center > table > tbody > tr:first-child > td { background-color: #000; } html > body > center > table > tbody > tr:first-child > td * { color: #ff6600; }
- msg 14y ago66CC66
- thetrumanshow 14y agoGeez kyro, logout every now and then. :)
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoHahaha, and here I thought you were being facetious above when you said it lacks movement and vitality.... But now I'm curious how you would design a HN homage shirt.
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- anigbrowl 14y agoYou get the original color bar whenever you submit or comment, not to mention that it's in the favicon. It's burned on my retinas despite my attempt to replace it with a more rest ful duck-egg blue.