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Ask HN: What's you "topcolor", and why?

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#ffbb88. I thought the default looks too bright, almost red, when it's a broader swathe than the logo. This just tones it down a bit and makes it look "more like YC" to my eye.

I made this change when topcolor was first introduced and have never messed with it since.

Sorry, but what's a "topcolor"? Are we talking about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topcolor ? I'm confused.

topcolor is the color of HN's menu bar, it can be changed in the settings (click on the username in the "top bar").

also, you can check https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors as the list of most popular topcolors.

Ah, that makes waaaaay more sense. Thank you.

Do low karma users not have access to this option? Don't see anything in me settings.

hey I haven't heard of such page! -- thanks for sharing

I don't have that option.

#ff6600 because I have no karma.

I wonder how much karma is needed for such change

it appears to be > 100 at least.

I have 121 karma as of this writing and I don't see anywhere to change the color in my settings. I didn't even know this was possible.

I have a custom CSS file using Stylish and my HN is mostly greyscale. (Topcolor is #AAAAAA.)

Incidentally, the HN favicon seems to be #dc721f, which isn't consistent with the logo on HN or topcolor.. and the logo at the top-level http://ycombinator.com seems to be #f16522. (Through my color picker, modulo dithering/gradients/aliasing artifacts.)

5DB2FF because I like the blue/ocean shade.

However setting a topcolor is a waste of time as the "Add Comment" page doesn't obey it, and the Y logo looks pretty horrible with anything but the default.

Abc251

It's significantly different from the stock orange, but it complements the logo well. I only care about it because it lets me know whether I'm logged in or not.

Can't beat the traditional burning orange.

Stock orange because I dgaf.

An orange that's lighter than the default: #ffcc66

dfcdfc

Cuz it's wavender. Duh.

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