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[YeGoblynQueenne]

>> If a user has 251 Karma, they can set the color of the top bar in their profile settings. The default is #ff6600. Here's the complete set of colors users have set.

Happy to see that the most #bada55 colour of all is in that list.

[airstrike → YeGoblynQueenne]

Would be nice to see a sorted list and the count for each color. Could even bucket very similar colors so we get a sense for the general HN taste for colors, though I don't know the first thing about bucketing colors.

I use #93a1a1, personally (i.e. $base1 from solarized https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/)

[acheron → airstrike]

I use the Dark Reader extension [0], and the standard HN topcolor stood out too much, so I darkened it to #fff0e6.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/

[saagarjha → YeGoblynQueenne]

For the curious: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%23bada55

[casefields → saagarjha]

That is a hideous color. I feel like the person who named it was trolling.

[cvs268 → casefields]

thwy didn't name it, its the color with r,g,b = 0xba, 0xda, 0x55.

[milankragujevic → casefields]

It's the astronaut's skin color in Kerbal Space Program.

[postsantum → YeGoblynQueenne]

#dadb0d too