How many colours in the rainbow?

[pne]

I've been adding a couple of people to my friends list, and it's been a bit of a chore assigning them colours.

My friends style is based on "Default Friends View", which uses a column at the left-hand side with the friends colour.

I usually read from the bottom up; this way, I can often see who has written an entry even before I scroll far enough up to see the author's name (name and userpic are centered vertically in the left-hand column), just from the background.

Of course, this requires that everyone have a distinctive background. So far, there haven't been many collisions, and there aren't many people with default colours (black-on-white), but it's getting harder, when adding a new friend, to remember which colours have been assigned and to pick a combination that'll be memorable.

What helps a bit is that I sometimes group related journals together (for example, someone's personal journal and support journal would be the same colour, or lj_maintenance and lj_test have the same colour since they're both "system journals"). Still, interesting.

I wonder how many LiveJournal users use friend colours.

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I was just thinking about this last week...

[fweebles.livejournal.com]

Heh, I used to have an individual colour for each person, until I started running out of combinations that didn't kill my eyes.

Now I've got all support people as blue on grey, and all support comms as grey on blue....most of my other friends still have a unique colour, except for a few random people I don't really care that much about, which are black on white.