Ask HN: What's with funky colors of HN?

Nice to have a christmas theme, but I think the new colors point out just how much a simple color choice can affect readability/usability.

My eyes were thankful when the top bar was scrolled off screen, but the alternating number colors are really challenging.

I opened it up in firebug and tried #fff for link text and it looks better on the topbar, but the footer become unreadable.

I'm not sure why I find the alternating colors so distracting, and am not sure about how to improve on that.

One thing that bugs me is that the Y logo is still on an orange background. It makes sense, but it doesn't work on the red bar. It stands out too much.

I've got topcolor set and so I can't see the new color on the top bar. Does anyone have any idea how to unset topcolor?

I don't, but if you want to have the holiday theme, you could always set it manually to #BE2828.

Festivus.

Christmas?

Halloween.

That's the standard colour scheme...

It's a trick.

Or a treat.

I for one like it. Easier on the eyes than the normal scheme, IMHO.

black color font on dark background doesn't look good

Kwanzaa?

My guess is Holiday Spirit.

bah humbug