Stuck in the Snarkularity

[akirlu]

Design- or color-sense are not among the virtues I associate with LASFS, but dear merciful Shiva, please rip my eyeballs out now. I just cruised by the lasfs community journal. That has got to be the single syphilitic-crocodile-butt-ugliest color scheme I have seen in a very long time. And I don't think that's an off-the-peg LJ scheme, which means that someone deliberately designed it that way. Sweet jumping baby Jehosophat.

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[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

My eyeballs are now vibrating.

[avram]

Mustard & ketchup!

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

My, isn't that color scheme special...

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Julie could tell I was looking at lasfs from across the room with her back turned.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Liiiiiiime! Shiva wouldn't notice it, though. He has been grabbing Spirit with his gums and holding her tight.

[lintninja.livejournal.com]

Arrrrgh, my eyes!

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

This is the first time I've looked at that site since the new plastic lenses in my eyes enormously improved my color-perception. Your Critique seems to be spot-on.

Fortunately, the new LASFS web-site isn't nearly as bad.

[maryread.livejournal.com]

Yikes.

I suspect someone got hold of some long ago scientifical research on legibility that was never intended to apply to CRT screens. At least I certainly hope there's some such excuse.

[richardthe23rd.livejournal.com]

Which color is the puke?

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

What??
You mean “stale piss” isn’t a stock scheme?!?

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Well, I did title the post "Stuck in the Snarkularity" for a reason.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Was in the screams, or the actinic radiation burning through the back of her head that first clued her?

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yes, my fear is that the scheme was chosen based on some form of misguided book larnin' about readable type, taken as gospel without the intermediation of an actually looking at the output.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Generally that's provided by the reader.