Website's Color Scheme

Our next step of simplifying the website will be to implement a "simple" and new design, making use of more white space and pleasing colors. Please discuss your favorite color combination possibilities for Young Composers. Let me know if you LIKE our current scheme, and if not, suggest your own color combo that you feel may work well. Please keep the following in mind:

1. Absolutely no yellows.

2. The main website should be based on "one color" throughout YC, using a few variations of that color. This website does not make use of websafe colors, but this does not seem to make much of a difference with our demographic. Probably all of us have capabilities of displaying more than 256 colors. If anyone doesn't have that ability, let me know.

3. Black text on white background, or black text on beige background.

4. Sparse usage of colors outside of the scheme, for important points. Most likely this would be a color red.

I thought it was already established that every user would have their own settings and therefore would be able to have a choice of their own scheme?

... me too. :blink: I vote browns, but having several schemes that apply to the whole site including forum and possibly wiki would be amazing.

To be honest, I don't like the brown, however, it has made YC distinctive. BUT, I want customizable color schemes, i.e. Web 3.0 stuff.

BTW, Web safe colors is pretty much obsolete these days since 99 times out of 100 people will have some form of 16 or 24 bit color availability. I mean, we are already in the second decade of the 21st Century. It would be nice to design the site up to today's standards, not 15 years ago's. A really good summation comes from the first paragraph on the article here: http://www.lynda.com/resources/webpalette.aspx "With current technology being so much more mature than in the early days of web design, browser-safe colors are more of a historical curiosity than a necessary topic of study for today’s designers."

I like the brown, personally, nice and soft. If you want a simple design then screw colours as far as I'm concerned, except perhaps as very occasional focal points — keep it minimalistic with black/gray/whites.

But I see myself keeping this theme active, personally, it's comfy and I find it very accessible. :happy:

I stand by this color scheme. It's nice and effective, while being subtle and not "OMG COLORS" like brighter ones would be.