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Thanks HN for the Christmas colors and Merry Christmas to you, too

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Re: Thanks HN for the Christmas colors and Merry Christmas to you, too

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Does it look like red and red? Or gray and gray?

At a glance it looks gray and gray. If I stare, I can make out the red and can see that the green is a different color, but I really only recognize that it's green because people mentioned it being green. So, I concur with the bah humbug to colorblindness statements.

I didn't even notice the colored numbers until I read the comments. For myself, the colors are easy enough to distinguish (as separate colors), as the red looks brighter than the green. If I didn't already know the colors were red and green, I think I'd be able to pick out the one that is clearly red (As there is a shade of red for sure in the title bar), but I do not believe I'd be able to say with certainty that the green is green (and not another shade of red).

Re: Thanks HN for the Christmas colors and Merry Christmas to you, too

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First, I thought Reddit isn't the most ugliest site on earth anymore. Then, I thought HN's CSS file is broken when I saw the darkred navbar. Finally, I thought the green and red numbers stand for raising and falling posts. HN is my favorite site but this Chistmas version shows again PG's modest design skills. PG, I'm sure that there many HN users (including me) who would love to redesign HN—just put it on Crowdspring…

What? The minimal, tasteful, uncluttered design of HN is one of the top reasons why it has been such an unqualified success.
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