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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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?

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

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.

I thought there was something wrong happened on my monitor.

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

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

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

Horrible. What's happening to github!

Flash on my eyes, when I opened github today.

Me to.

How can we ask them get back the previous color.

Thank you.

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

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

Just thought the same thing.

GitHub should fire their style engineer immediately.

This color scheme is literally XP.

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?

I see no other explanation.

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