Is is possible to have more colours in Customise, please?

[FruStefanLindman]

I know this is a trivial Q in the grand scheme of other things you have to deal with, but I'm getting a little bored with the limited number of colours you can choose for the OP's highlighted colour and your own highlighted colour.

Have you tried out all six?

Yes - except the very pale ones

Ooh yes I'd like a colour wheel please so I can choose the exact shade of magenta to highlight my posts.

TIA

A colour wheel?! wonders if MN has morphed into Farrow and Ball when I wasn't looking Pale is the new black don'tyaknow.

The problem with the pale ones is that they don't catch your eye very easily if you're scrolling through a thread quite quickly.

I'm sorry to say I have been resisting moaning about this too.

I knpow it's all v tasteful and so on but the olive green is almost too dark to read the writing, silveris v depressing dark grey so I'm stuck with pale green and pink.

it's unattractive. i do cope but would be so pleased to have maybe something else. IF it's not massively difficult to organise that is.

I'd like to second the comments by Gloria, above. Would love more choices, or some way to store hex levels for RGB.

Also, if you're red/green colour blind, the pale green is well-nigh invisible.

Confused me for a bit, that; "Well, this, highlight posts thing hasn't worked at all - oh, wait a minute...."

Luckily I was tested for colour blindness 35+ years ago... could have been dangerous for myself and colleagues (electrical / radio, not bomb making :) )

"hex levels for RGB", I couldn't have put it better myself, NWG

I haven't got a clue what you're talking about, but it sounds good

Sorry - had been checking some old links that day from my bookmarks file of some 8 years ago.

RGB = Red Green Blue - the colours which were mixed together on older computer screens / TVs (and possibly used in flat screens too).

'hex' short for hexadecimal, ie number system based on 16 not 10 (decimal), as it is commonly used on computers (using hex pairs is short way of showing numbers up to 255).

If part of the screen is solid red then it could be expressed as 255,0,0 ( red, green, blue ) which would be stored as FF0000 (FF = 15x16 + 15 = 255)

Hex shows numbers as 0..8.9.A.B.C.D.E.F
A=10 B=11 C=12 ... F=15

NGuy

You are as clear as Linux as usual.

Fru, I think slowing the scrolling is a VeryWiseIdea.

From one who has been complimentaried on her slowness of scroll.

Blimey, NWG, thanks - it's still as clear as mud to me, but I appreciate the explanation

Chaos, I do scroll slowly to begin with, but sometimes if I'm re-reading a thread and want to go back to something the OP has said, or that I've said, that's when the quick scroll comes into play. [wunk]

OK, please take a ook *> here

Thank you for the link, NGuy. Wow - that's really cool and I see what you're getting at.

I suppose it depends on what the MNHQTechs want to do re adding a few more colours for us?

I didnt even know that the customise options existed! I've just changed mine and it makes the world of difference! Thank you!

More than enough colours for me as i'm not used to any.

FSL glad it made more sense, eventually. Of course I knew what I meant but it is difficult to describe that to someone in simple English if they've never seen such a colour palette and were unfamiliar with Hex, too.

NGuy, a colour palette/wheel etc I'm familiar with - it was your mathematical description of how it all works

... and I remember using Letraset transfers for presentations 30+ years ago when graphic printing devices were costly and the software awkward to use, and laser printers probably didn't exist, and certainly colour inkjet printers didn't.

(and to put my use of Letraset into perspective, I was working in a computer support department in higher education, so did have access to high-powered [for the time] computing resources, expensive [green vectors only] graphics display devices, HP colour plotters [with costly plotter pens, and software one pretty much had to write for oneself!]. I was extremely happy to get that job, especially after I had quit college and had no 'A' levels even, just a lot of enthusiasm, hundreds of hours of computer use, and willingness/ability to learn.)

Letraset . . .

Is there any movement on this, please?
I too can not find the pale pink and pale green posts, as I am scrolling through threads, quickly. When are darker colours coming?

Plus, when IS the I-phone colour thing going to come out? I need that too. BADLY.

Ooh this colour thing was before my time. Will get an update for you.

I forgot I requested this nearly two years ago where does the time fly? (yeah, it's me, I had a different NN then). Well, I didn't forget .......... I just kind of gave up

Thanks for reviving the thread Oblomov!

Oh hey, can I order this for my colour scheme please.

It's so pretty !,

And my living room is frustrating me because it won't let me do it in there (can't find cushions in right colours etc.) so I'd feel better if I could impose it somewhere at least.

I like the lavender blush and blue I have going on here, but the above is so much lovelier.

Tech won't mind. I think they'll like it too and find it a real joy to implement. Probably.

OK. This is a zombie thread, I know. But it's my zombie thread (as in, I started it in 2011)!

But just wondering whether now (5 years later) there is any chance of adding a few more colours in Customise for highlighting OP's posts and our own posts now? The options are still the same and very limited. It is nice to have a change now and again