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I’m interested in colours.  I’m also interested in Japan.  These two things came together when I started to play around with Wordpress themes.

The basic idea: make a theme with traditional Japanese colours.

The complex bit: try to ensure the theme is easy on the eye.

I eventually settled on two colours.  The background is called sakura-iro and uses the hex value #fef4f4.  The title background and menu title background is called namari-iro and uses the hex value #7b7c7d.  The black borders are plain black, hex code #000000.  In case you are wondering, ‘iro’ means colour in Japanese.

Reactions to the theme have been interesting.  Some people liked it, some people hated it.  There didn’t seem to be much of a middle ground.

I’m a controversial guy.

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4 Responses to “Colours from Japan”

  1. Ramon Cahenzli Says:
    August 28th, 2008 at 11:47 am

    I’m torn. I like it on an intellectual level (now that I have the explanation), but my eyes are less intellectual than I expected!

  2. shane Says:
    August 28th, 2008 at 11:49 am

    Ah ha! I have a fence-sitter. Or a guy who’s too polite to say “I hate it. Change it right now.”

    :)

    Well, it’s interesting to note that the score so far is:
    Japanese mostly like it.
    Chinese mostly don’t like it.
    Swiss have fight between brain and eyes over it.
    Dutch don’t care.

  3. Tangjuan Says:
    August 28th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    Hooray, I can leave replies now ^^

    Have you changed the colour or is it still the pink one? Strange that I could not recognise it on my laptop (or something wrong with my eyes? oh no…)

    Anyway, time to sleep. Night controversial one!

  4. shane Says:
    August 28th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    Hi Tangjuan!

    It’s the same annoying (or beautiful) pink. Maybe your laptop has a different colour profile to your work computer. That would explain why it looks different to you. On one computer it would be brighter than another.

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