Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-1392727-20151105170311/@comment-4608608-20151118214226

Slug-Drones wrote: I am still not in favor of this color, #00F. Honestly, everything you've made looks great. You're not a bad designer. I gave you the psd. file of one of my designs and I think you made it better. It's just this color that I strongly disagree with.

I did not intend to say that blue and gray don't go well together. They can. I was not in favor of that blue on that gray. It does have a news feel but this is an encyclopedia about Sonic. News channels use bright colors to alarm the viewer. This is an online encyclopedia, you spend more time reading one page, and more carefully. It's not fast-paced like social media, there's more patience. It's like a book. This is way too bright for it. News channels can use any colour they want - it doesn't have to be alarming. That's a typical cliche in the news industry, especially on cable news in America.

Does this look in any way alarming?

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 * 1) 00F isn't intended to be an alarming colour, and is actually already suitable for anything web related. Again, I refer to sites like Bloomberg Business, on which they has an identical colour palette like ours, and are able to have a presentable design; while keeping it fresh for 5 years onwards. The only difference regarding here is that the general wiki look had to compromise with the community because users here complained it was "too bright".

Like you noted before, I've used a shade of blue that is the brightest pigment to represent our commitment into the Sonic series. It doesn't mean that we can't use said colour because it's bright.

Moreover, using the fact we're a wiki isn't an excuse either; the colour does not interfere with the general look right now due to the changes requested by the community, and people are and should be able to read articles here without complaining. The look is created with the wiki and other outlets in mind.

In short, saying the palette is too bright, alarming of a colour to be used here is a overstatement.