I realize it’s probably a minimal change for the HN admins, but I appreciate holiday design tweaks. I remember when The Iconfactory would change out it’s site theme — text included — for Halloween. I wish more sites did fun things like this.
The alternating red and green numbering are very hard to notice for even slightly colorblind people like me, the red banner is not and it always make me kind of giggle: To allow some degree of ‘fun’ on one of the most spartan sites on the web is kind of endearing.
I was about to ask the same
I'm always surprised that there are people who can't guess.
I'm sure my brother missed this. He is red/green color blind. As kids, it was always a good bit of fun to buy him a random assortment of those colored socks. Tragically, his Bride put an end to our fun.
I like it. A simple tweak, but a fun one.
I think the dark red is kind of of putting. A big red banner doesn't really scream "Christmas". Maybe green would make more sense.