Yay for friend colours

[pne]

It's fun being able to begin reading an entry on my Friends Page and not seeing the poster's name yet (because it's vertically centred in the table cell) but knowing who it is anyway because of the background colour I've assigned to that friend.

Pity that doesn't scale, though :) But for a bunch of people, I can recognise them fairly consistently by colour (especially the ones that post more often), and there aren't that many colours that are assigned to multiple people.

(Hm, I wonder what colour, if any, different people have assigned me.)

Comments

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

I used to do that before I went over to S2 - in fact, it would be my primary identification (as the userpics would be fairly slow to load) - unfortunately I ended up with more people than unique colours. As for you, you are black text on bright green background - always have been :)

[bride.livejournal.com]

Cool, I'm #a501a7 on #fcddff! I do like lavendar, thank you =)

I didn't understand what the colours were for, so I set everyone to the same colours (black on white).

[denial-land.livejournal.com]

I am always too lazy to assign friends colors....

[jordik.livejournal.com]

You are light yellow on dark blue in my friends list, but the current S2 layout I use doesn't do colours. I am still working on my own layout which does.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Glad you like it :)

For some people, I tried to find colours that "fit" them somehow, but for many (especially people I added later) it was simply "which colour haven't I used yet" coupled with "it shouldn't be too close to an existing colour, either, if possible".

But I think I chose yours fairly early, so I was probably influenced by your journal style.

[fweebles.livejournal.com]

You are (like every other support person on my friends list) medium blue on grey.

I added a whole bunch of people at once within a month of joining support, and I'd already used the majority of the "good" colour combinations, so support people all got the same colour.

I might, if I get ambitious, go through and reassign colours someday.

[lovewithnoface.livejournal.com]

Everyone is a purpley colour that I liked. I havn't converted it to a hexidecimal code, and so I add all of my friends through Semagic.

Hmmm...what was my colour inspired by? My layout?

Whatever it was, it's purrtty, I like it.

Merry Christmas!

[opal1159.livejournal.com]

I don't use friends colors, sorry. =P

[pne.livejournal.com]

I don't remember. But now, it's you :) since I've been seeing it so often.