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Comment by zhuzhuor | Hacker News Reader

off-topic: the red background seriously hurts my eyes

Agreed - it was painful but worth the time to change background to teal w/ StyleBot Chrome extension. Really like how this is all laid out and the term sheet is right there at the bottom.

Thanks for your feedback. Better now?

The darker red is definitely better, but generally red is a bad color to use excessively. Plenty of studies have shown that red can invoke the fight or flight response and increase stress.

Maybe that's what they're going for. :P

Not at all ;-) What color do you suggest ? ;-)

Even the new red is painful on my eyes. I navigated away before I finished reading, and when coming back here, it still created an afterimage on my retina.

I recommend a much more muted background, especially for the textual portion of the site. Run red banners down the side if you must, but change the text section to a more readable contrast.

More of a neutral background would be a good start, something like the Kima Ventures site where white-on-red is used as a bold title versus the whole page text.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/28/color-theory-for-... is the knockoff answer, but you should get the input of an actual designer - I've used yellow-on-red AND the <blink> tag before, both at the same time.

Don't have the whole page one background color - use it as either side panels as suggested below, or as a focal element like this: http://imgur.com/hwsUhKI

New red is much better. Red wine instead of ketchup.

Thanks. It's much better for me now

Still difficult for me to read.

Great offer I guess but I seriously had to shut down the page after looking at it for 30s..

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