Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-17897872-20150716203537/@comment-4189499-20150722105059

Imamadmad wrote: I really, really dislike using colour names in CSS. It makes me cringe whenever I see it. It's as if the editor went to no effort whatsoever to make sure the colour looked right. Please use either hex values or RGB values where possible (exceptions are black and white, but still, is it that much harder to type #000000 and #FFFFFF respectively?) so you can get the best shade possible. Please!

I would prefer to use slightly shaded tone for the background, if only because any contrasting colour will stand out a lot more in contrast to the bright surround. Similarly, a very pale shade will look whiter when surrounded by the bright outline in the template. It doesn't take that much extra effort to choose the colours and put them in the template, so there's not too much of a drawback there. Give me a few minutes and I'll model both the pale and white situations and you can see what you think. See Template:Stance/test.