Power Poll #5 - Banging My Head Against A Rainbow (Patreon)

I don't know if it's just good old-fashioned burnout or if this hellish year is finally grinding me down,  but I've definitely been in a rut this past couple of weeks.  In an effort to mix things up a bit, lately I've been focusing on design polish rather than coding. And one of the biggest pet peeves of mine currently is custom user colors and static colors clashing. 

I know not everyone is bothered by clashing colors but... *shudder* 

Of course I could let users just pick every color on their page but experience with the current version of the Backloggery has taught me that this is a bad idea. Most people don't know color theory, and heck, I've studied it a bit and I'm still not wonderful at it.

At this point I did have a long post written up about how I was designing a system to spit out complementary schemes based on just two colors given by the user, with varying levels of success. But while I was writing up this post and continuing to tweak the system here and there it happened to spit out colors that I realized would work reasonably well with most any user color scheme.

There's also a clear benefit to having a universal set of icon colors across the site, to help people process data at a glance, which we would lose with custom or derived colors. 

So yeah, that was a waste. 🤦‍♂️

Here's where I ended up.  When I showed this to the Discord, it was somewhat controversial.

And so a post that started as a quick bit of touching base has turned into a poll. If you need to see more examples of the Red-Orange option, try here.

UPDATE:  A few people mentioned the yellow being a bit too much in the teal scheme and I agree. I've toned it down a bit.

Sorry folks, I've been trying out dictation more and it demands such a different mental space than typing that this came out a lot less clear than I intended.  

To clarify, the vote is on which colors to use for Unplayed/Unfinished. 

About Polls:  

Assume your vote is deciding the default setting.  Everyone likes options, but making alternatives for every aspect of the site just isn't practical. That said, some options will happen. I just want to focus on getting the remake finished first.

Poll results are not binding. Things change. Not all ideas pan out. Technical limitations happen. That said, I'll do my best to let poll results guide my decisions, especially when they show a strong consensus. I make them when I'm not sure what to do after all.