Ask HN: Did GitHub just change the default link color?

23 points by xlr 9 years ago | 20 comments

Did Github switch from a lightweight blue/gray to blue/purple link color? The folder icon also changed. Why the strong colors?

soulchild37 9 years ago |

My eyes feel kinda uncomfortable after looking at it, perhaps they are just playing with designs

wirddin 9 years ago |

Yep, they're now using a darker blue. At first I thought it was flux :D

ezekg 9 years ago |

Yes, looks like they made colors throughout the site more vibrant. The new colors are slightly straining to look at, especially with brightness at 100%. Maybe I'm crazy?

kentor 9 years ago | |

You're not crazy. I think the people who want such colors (which I'm guessing is a very small minority) should use a custom css, instead of straining the eyes of the majority of users.

undefinedblog 9 years ago |

This change is so frustrating, I can barely look at these blue links. What is happening in Github, did they just launched a new UED head?

ivanbrennan 9 years ago |

Yeah, they had such nice colors for so long. All of a sudden they subtly tweaked all the colors to be awful :(

hunvreus 9 years ago |

Lots of small incremental changes; buttons, inputs and textareas (different hover/focus styles), ... Not surprising considering they rolled out the new header not too long ago.

zhangweifang 9 years ago |

I thought there was something wrong happened on my monitor.

lordchtsai 9 years ago |

The new green color in pull requests kind hurting my eyes.

jsmeaton 9 years ago |

I'd just upgraded to Sierra and wasn't sure if color profiles for monitor had changed or something.

xpl 9 years ago |

This is awful. How did they come up with that?.. Reminds me of pre-Web2.0 internet.

eirannejad 9 years ago |

Horrible. What's happening to github!

idevnull 9 years ago |

Flash on my eyes, when I opened github today.

maarooth 9 years ago | |

Me to.

How can we ask them get back the previous color.

Thank you.

hsh 9 years ago |

what have they done. This looks like a party blue.

drdator 9 years ago |

current web design trend is using the most annoying / eye hurting colors possible.

tobihrbr 9 years ago |

Just thought the same thing.

ishitatsuyuki 9 years ago |

GitHub should fire their style engineer immediately.

This color scheme is literally XP.

anaganisk 9 years ago | |

c'mon why so serious, it's so easy to ask to fire someone. Do you really think the style engineer just pushed the update all by himself without anyone taking a look at it?

fiedzia 9 years ago | | |

I see no other explanation.