While this colour does look really really nice, something very similar was offered in our staff chats for a “fire to ice” colour. Ultimately I said that none of our colours are going to include red for the gradients, it’s far too close to being the staff colour.
Problem with greys is that they don’t stand out, and would be difficult considering we have light and dark themes for the site. I also don’t want to give one charity colour more bold (or an outline) than the other ones and do like consistency with it.
The first colour looks like a slightly more extreme version of C, except it’ll be really hard to read on light theme.
The second option is just our special effect username colour from our fundraiser not last time, so we can’t do that again.
We currently have a tonne of name colours involving blue, I’d rather we pick a colour that we haven’t added much before.
We have premium blue, dark blue, water.org blue, and cyan.
The same is also the case with purple/pink I guess.
I’m pretty sure we tried blue to orange, it looked horrible every time.
Very cool!
The first one is red, so we’re not doing it. The second is too similar to our water.org and make-a-wish colours.
Considering the restraints we have with colour picking, like having to make it suitable for light/dark, not include red or other common colours, not be too similar to our current colours, not be too flashy, I think we did a pretty good job with it. We spent a lot of time in the staff team brainstorming colours and although some are more liked than others (Justis), we’ve not really got any other options other than the ones I’ve listed.
If you’ve got some hex codes to give me then I’d love to see what amazing gradients you can come up with.
