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Ask HN: Did GitHub just change the default link color?

23 points by xlr 10y ago

Did Github switch from a lightweight blue/gray to blue/purple link color? The folder icon also changed. Why the strong colors?

tobihrbr 10y ago
Just thought the same thing.
ezekg 10y ago
Yes, looks like they made colors throughout the site more vibrant. The new colors are slightly straining to look at, especially with brightness at 100%. Maybe I'm crazy?
- kentor 10y ago
  You're not crazy. I think the people who want such colors (which I'm guessing is a very small minority) should use a custom css, instead of straining the eyes of the majority of users.
soulchild37 10y ago
My eyes feel kinda uncomfortable after looking at it, perhaps they are just playing with designs
lordchtsai 10y ago
The new green color in pull requests kind hurting my eyes.
wirddin 10y ago
Yep, they're now using a darker blue. At first I thought it was flux :D
jsmeaton 10y ago
I'd just upgraded to Sierra and wasn't sure if color profiles for monitor had changed or something.
zhangweifang 10y ago
I thought there was something wrong happened on my monitor.
undefinedblog 10y ago
This change is so frustrating, I can barely look at these blue links. What is happening in Github, did they just launched a new UED head?
hunvreus 10y ago
Lots of small incremental changes; buttons, inputs and textareas (different hover/focus styles), ... Not surprising considering they rolled out the new header not too long ago.
idevnull 10y ago
Flash on my eyes, when I opened github today.
- maarooth 10y ago
  Me to. How can we ask them get back the previous color. Thank you.
ishitatsuyuki 10y ago
GitHub should fire their style engineer immediately. This color scheme is literally XP.
- anaganisk 10y ago
  c'mon why so serious, it's so easy to ask to fire someone. Do you really think the style engineer just pushed the update all by himself without anyone taking a look at it?
  - fiedzia 10y ago
    I see no other explanation.
drdator 10y ago
current web design trend is using the most annoying / eye hurting colors possible.
ivanbrennan 10y ago
Yeah, they had such nice colors for so long. All of a sudden they subtly tweaked all the colors to be awful :(
xpl 10y ago
This is awful. How did they come up with that?.. Reminds me of pre-Web2.0 internet.
eirannejad 10y ago
Horrible. What's happening to github!
hsh 10y ago
what have they done. This looks like a party blue.

23 points by xlr 10y ago

Did Github switch from a lightweight blue/gray to blue/purple link color? The folder icon also changed. Why the strong colors?

tobihrbr 10y ago

Just thought the same thing.

ezekg 10y ago

Yes, looks like they made colors throughout the site more vibrant. The new colors are slightly straining to look at, especially with brightness at 100%. Maybe I'm crazy?

kentor 10y ago
You're not crazy. I think the people who want such colors (which I'm guessing is a very small minority) should use a custom css, instead of straining the eyes of the majority of users.

soulchild37 10y ago

My eyes feel kinda uncomfortable after looking at it, perhaps they are just playing with designs

lordchtsai 10y ago

The new green color in pull requests kind hurting my eyes.

wirddin 10y ago

Yep, they're now using a darker blue. At first I thought it was flux :D

jsmeaton 10y ago

I'd just upgraded to Sierra and wasn't sure if color profiles for monitor had changed or something.

zhangweifang 10y ago

I thought there was something wrong happened on my monitor.

undefinedblog 10y ago

This change is so frustrating, I can barely look at these blue links. What is happening in Github, did they just launched a new UED head?

hunvreus 10y ago

Lots of small incremental changes; buttons, inputs and textareas (different hover/focus styles), ... Not surprising considering they rolled out the new header not too long ago.

idevnull 10y ago

Flash on my eyes, when I opened github today.

maarooth 10y ago
Me to. How can we ask them get back the previous color. Thank you.

ishitatsuyuki 10y ago

GitHub should fire their style engineer immediately. This color scheme is literally XP.

anaganisk 10y ago
c'mon why so serious, it's so easy to ask to fire someone. Do you really think the style engineer just pushed the update all by himself without anyone taking a look at it?
- fiedzia 10y ago
  I see no other explanation.

drdator 10y ago

current web design trend is using the most annoying / eye hurting colors possible.

ivanbrennan 10y ago

Yeah, they had such nice colors for so long. All of a sudden they subtly tweaked all the colors to be awful :(

xpl 10y ago

This is awful. How did they come up with that?.. Reminds me of pre-Web2.0 internet.

eirannejad 10y ago

Horrible. What's happening to github!

hsh 10y ago

what have they done. This looks like a party blue.