People seem to like it because out of the ~1,500 people that use a computer each day, almost 1,000 chose a color.
You would be surprised at how many people pick hot pink/peach and bright oranges. There are even a few hot sea foam greens. To be fair there are many more woman, but even some guys have pinks and purples.
Its funny because the corporate push/marketing designers would be for corporate blues and boring greys but clearly, the people voting with colors picked much brighter hues.
This fire orange, I copied from (e:tinypliny) who had it for a while.
The saturated areas are the parts you kind of ignore, like you links to most used content, etc. The white space is then focused on things like the search and content areas.
You can pick pastels too but I really like the bright colors.
Each one of those dots on the quilt represent a color swatch that people chose. The color scheme is from one of the users.
Today the videographer told me that my work is ugly because I am not a designer. Ugly is so subjective. The ironic part is I actually have an MFA in computer media studies. I wonder if he does?
There are a couple on the front page under the graph.
Without knowing the computer system and what you have to read my take is this.... People like to have a strong contrast between what they are reading and background. I think bright colors work best for this. As Amazing as a black background with red Writing looks it is tough to read this band Stemm had there myspace blog like that and I never read it because of that color scheme..... That Brings me to a point is it true that (e:strip) will be getting themes again?
Your work is ugly? Tell him his work is fugly. I like your work. And I wish I could choose my own color @ work, I would chose hot pink.
Yes, let's look him up on I2. This is reminding me to switch my color.
Ugly? Who is this bloke?! I LOVE that fiery orange. I think I still have it as my background colour. I smile everytime I boot up i2. :-) (I need to check that the fiery orange is back on...)