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More saturated colors get more dramatic themes, if that's what you're looking for:

http://rriepe.github.io/1pxdeep/#ff3f38

It's also completely built on SchemeLESS, so you can easily override any color in the theme. I think "dull" is a pretty good tradeoff for generally working with any color you give it.

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I actually was going to point out that less saturated colors get... well, maybe not more dramatic, but in-my-opinion-"better" themes. For example, with this one, any but 'complementary' are almost usable http://rriepe.github.io/1pxdeep/#e9ede4

Also, anybody that's using this should be sure to add a rule like

    input { outline: none}

or it completely ruins the whole 1pxdeep theme with OS-defined outlines on clicked buttons. On the demo, this may not work for the main "Scheme now" button, but

    #change_color { outline: none }

will.

Less saturated colors definitely produce better themes. The very-close-to-white colors (and white itself) behave weird in general but I liked all the results so I just kept it. Should fix that navbar contrast issue though...

Be careful with outline:none. It's an accessibility issue:

http://blog.paciellogroup.com/2012/04/how-to-remove-css-outl...

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