I’m clumsily making an effort to modify the default Kareha stylesheet (blue_moon.css, which I like) to an okayish darker colour scheme, so that /idk/ matches the theme of the rest of the site a bit better.

Just picking some darker colours to replace the blue was easy enough (see new_moon.css, but when I tried to pick some suitable colours for the posts – the more important part of a page that consists mostly of posts – I started failing miserably (see soul.css).

Excerpt from IRC where I discuss this with renowned musician^[1], web designer, and expert programmer «nivi».

[18:18:16] <@sutol> nivi: refresh, I am screwing up
[18:18:32] <@nivi> sutol: hmm
[18:18:37] <@nivi> not sure how i feel about this
[18:18:49] <@nivi> it looks a little confusing
[18:18:54] <@nivi> more than a little
[18:19:03] <@nivi> difficult to work out what's inside what
[18:19:13] <@sutol> Yeah I am screwing up
[18:19:22] <@nivi> also: 無名 is still blue
[18:19:29] <@sutol> Not for me
[18:19:51] <@nivi> i mean like very dark, very slightly blue
[18:19:56] <@sutol> Oh right
[...]
[18:25:05] <@sutol> nivi: whacky thing done
[18:25:16] <@sutol> Makingitworse
[18:25:20] <@nivi> that is even worse
[18:25:26] <@sutol> I know

Then I suddenly lost interest, maybe I’ll pick a decent scheme tomorrow.
Or perhaps I’ll go back to a light scheme for the site, but that would not reflect my dark soul very well.

[1] — His music is actually pretty nice, although you might think otherwise if you have a distaste for distortion. He loves him some distortion. Give it a try!