The Christmas color scheme is a bit off for me. The title bar is too light to read.
I turned off my dark theme and the page became high-contrast chromatic in my browser. It is readable like that, if brutally so.
pohl•11h ago
and green
dang•10h ago
Someone should make a compendium of all the "Tell HN: Merry Christmas" and corresponding "Ask HN: Why did the colors change?" threads over the years. It would be fun, and is probably be a good fit for semantic search.
tptacek•8h ago
Wrong answers only! It's a secret feature of HN, like the black bar, but for when someone has made Dan angry.
dadrian•8h ago
It's not red! You're just colorblind.
throwaway2046•8h ago
Black bar?
akerl_•7h ago
It’s like a grizzly bar, but mostly found on the east coast.
The red looks great overall. Changing the text to white might improve contrast and readability. I experimented with red in my app, but it didn’t work visually, so I moved to a snowfall theme.
xenospn•11h ago