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dwighttk · 2018-10-09 14:34:47+00:00

also, it's the background color for his page

tekstar | karma 1969 | avg karma 6.15 · | 2020-07-13 16:02:45+00:00

That's the colour of visited links.

jedberg | karma 72921 | avg karma 5.98 · | 2013-03-12 22:52:19+00:00

It's Paul's favorite color. It's also the color of the walls at YC.

pixelcloud | karma 210 | avg karma 1.71 · | 2011-10-26 00:37:28+00:00

He did post editing on it to give it that colour

Ironballs | karma 135 | avg karma 3.29 · | 2013-07-08 07:35:47

What colour scheme is he using?

revorad | karma 20720 | avg karma 5.37 · | 2011-03-31 13:48:46+00:00

Color is - http://twitter.com/#!/dpatil/status/53130035732824064

dhbanes | karma 697 | avg karma 3.26 · | 2023-10-30 19:28:14

It's a color option dude.

gh0stcloud | karma 2 | avg karma 0.67 · | 2023-10-02 11:02:06

ther article's background color deserves to be named: https://colornames.org/color/fddb29

pklausler | karma 3260 | avg karma 2.55 · | 2017-06-12 16:38:06+00:00

#efface makes a nice background color.

birriel | karma 5650 | avg karma 8.15 · | 2023-02-28 04:10:56

Incidentally, as a color, it's one of Larry Wall's favorites.

http://www.wall.org/~larry/

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klysm | karma 3701 | avg karma 2.14 · | 2024-03-02 02:40:22

Completely irrelevant but I love the way the color theme on this blog feels like a chalk board

k__ | karma 14385 | avg karma 1.6 · | 2016-11-09 04:14:13

why did he choose the colors like that?

MaysonL | karma 18139 | avg karma 3.93 · | 2012-08-29 14:41:48

e0e0d8: a darker version of the background color...

girmad | karma 54 | avg karma 1.23 · | 2014-10-30 16:38:06+00:00

That's very Yahoo purple.

diehunde | karma 878 | avg karma 1.7 · | 2020-09-25 20:39:34

I wasn't expecting anything. It's just unusual. Anyway, seems he's just experimenting with colors. There's another video with a yellow background in his YT channel and all the latest ones have dark color schemes.

teddyh | karma 23902 | avg karma 2.94 · | 2020-04-27 20:13:37+00:00

JWZ took the colors on his web site from the Ann Arbor Ambassador 60 terminal:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200214203348/https://www.jwz.o...

“Sometimes people ask me why my web sites use those colors. This is a thing that people sometimes ask.”

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sebg | karma 20251 | avg karma 6.58 · | 2023-03-17 07:30:58

Found this Twitter thread from Timothy Gower that gives some interesting color: https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1636632071069106181

X-Istence | karma 7122 | avg karma 2.59 · | 2011-10-06 04:27:48+00:00

Gruber has changed his background to be a little darker than his normal background colour. Fitting; I think.

sp332 | karma 55607 | avg karma 2.75 · | 2011-11-03 15:21:54+00:00

If anyone's wondering what the color scheme is, I believe it's Solarized http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized (on HN previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2393976 )

radley | karma 8742 | avg karma 5.77 · | 2017-04-05 07:09:39+00:00

Color.