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Comment by BubRoss | Hacker News Reader

I'm not sure choosing a color scheme for your CSS is really 'building' anything.

It could be a major undertaking for a sufficiently complex site like Stackoverflow, just like the article illustrates, because there just so many UI elements to re-color.

Thinking that choosing colors is a major undertaking is one of the most preposterous things I've read in here in a long time. Everything in this article should take a morning at most. People need to stop pretending trivial things are difficult just because they want to write a blog post.

Design is an actual discipline that people work hard at to produce the results that they do. Colors are a core aspect to UI design.

It is true

But not 100% in this case

They just recoloured something that already existed

Design must also account for spacing, layout, positioning and emphasizing things, according to the colour scheme

I remember using a forum software on a site long ago (around the late 90s/early 2000s timeframe) where one of the options in the user preferences page let you adjust the colours of various things --- and not as in "pick from these limited choices", but as in "enter the CSS colour value, either a name or #hex", and I believe it saved them for every user since you'd only see them when logged in. Does anyone else remember what that could be?

Color customization was popular, hard to say

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