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Re:The inconsistencies in your site's color palette by k3n on Thursday August 02, 2012 @03:07PM (#4330403)
How is it the site with one of the most conservative designs -- Github -- has by & large the most colors? From memory, I only see a few shades of gray when I picture the site, though I know there's a few colors that accent the UI, but hell, 331 is more than the entire old "web safe palette".

I wonder if there's some sort of anomaly or bug causing the number to be so high... perhaps they use far less images, and instead use CSS instead? Maybe they have a CSS-based color-picker somewhere in their source?

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Re:The inconsistencies in your site's color palette by pflats on Thursday August 02, 2012 @03:17PM (#4330463)
Among other things, I'm sure syntax highlighting doesn't help.
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Re:The inconsistencies in your site's color palette by nickknw on Thursday August 02, 2012 @05:08PM (#4331007)
That would be my guess as to what's propelling it so high.
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Re:The inconsistencies in your site's color palette by k3n on Thursday August 02, 2012 @10:39PM (#4332246)
Ah yes, that.

I can sleep now!

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Re:The inconsistencies in your site's color palette by nickknw on Thursday August 02, 2012 @05:02PM (#4330992)
I think there is a bug. I ran it on my own site (http://nickknowlson.com) which is pretty simple in terms of colour. I got a large list of colours (33!) that contains colours I can verify are not in the stylesheet or present anywhere on the page.

EDIT: Nevermind, false alarm. Forgot about the syntax.css file for pygments.

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Re:The inconsistencies in your site's color palette by J-H on Thursday August 02, 2012 @03:18PM (#4330471)
lots of different shades of grey?
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Re:The inconsistencies in your site's color palette by ericgsmith on Friday August 03, 2012 @12:19AM (#4332517)
...50?
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