Post #148848 by hanford_lemoore on Wed, Mar 23, 2005 11:51 PM

Interesting posts.

A couple of things to point out here about the color scheme of TC:

I designed Tikiroom.com first with the dark green background because I wanted the site to have a moody dark feel like all the best tiki bars do. At the time, Tiki Central was on Yahoo and I didn't intend to have forums here.

When I moved TC here, I kept that same color scheme to make it fit together.

Interesting note though: I do a lot of television graphics work for various video devices and settop boxes, and the rule of thumb there is to use Light text on a dark background.

This is because a lot of TVs have their contrast turned up, and this causes blooming (thickening or glowing) of bright things. Light text on dark appears to be bolded a little, while dark text on light will make the text look thinner (because the background is blooming) and harder to read.

For people who prefer dark on light, there's the "Old School" Tiki Central theme that works on most pages. You can choose it on this page.