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[Bauglir]

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[SquidgyB]

Ctrl-Mousewheel is your friend - even on a 1920 monitor you can get rid of 9% of the background... just means the text is huge

Plus you get to see the kitten!

[Pnx]

Today while reading the new devlog I got a nosebleed, that refused to stop for two hours, and left lots of bloody cloths. This is probably unrelated but I still think the background needs to change, I like the brownish look of the pictured submitted previously, but you could also just turn the brightness down a bit.

[Akigagak]

I like that the background picture changes, depending on which tab you're on.

[Pnx]

I do like how the grey C becomes lots of grey C's.

[goffrie]

For those who hate the bright background, like me, I wrote a simple Stylish theme that darkens it: see http://userstyles.org/styles/27084 .

[Caz]

Um, with a graphical tileset and non-hyper color scheme?

HERASY


Edit: Really though, I don't see what all the fuss is about. It should only hurt your eyes (like someone else in the thread said) if your monitor's brightness/contrast is waay off.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Yeah, all I'm seeing is a fairly normal color palette. I don't think I'd mind if it was the forum background too, as long as posts and any free-floating text bits have a solid background. I tried, as an experiment, to put a DF world image as a desktop wallpaper. Yup, just as I thought - it's not really jarring, but the many different symbols make icons and text difficult to see against it.

[Tarran]

I don't see any problem with the background image, and this is a (currently) former tileset user.



Not much to say, other than I think there's nothing wrong with it.

[Wirevix]

For those who really find the background painful to look at, it's easy enough to fix - you can try Stylish like someone else linked, or you can use AdBlock Plus (or probably loads of other tools) and choose "block image" to turn it to a plain black background.

[Mike Mayday]

I understand the problem stems from the fact that the default colour scheme being used in the backgrounds has its colours at 100% saturation, a trait widely considered a crime worthy of capital punishment in the world of website design.
I understand the choice behind leaving it as is (whether it's conscious or not) is caused by sentiment (after all it's the default colour scheme of the games of yore).
I didn't find it particularly repulsive (it IS the default colour scheme of DF after all) but I do agree that toning it down in a way that Sensei suggested would look much better and less repulsive to newcomers. Various main hues could even be used for various pages.