No harm done, this time

[redbird]

I have got to actually look at usernames or icons, not just the colors I've assigned my friends. I just answered a poll of stealthpup's, a perfectly straightforward thing--but I thought it was yonmei's journal, because I've given them the same color on my friends list.

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[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

How do you use colours? I have at least three competing schemes and so the use of colours in our journal is not all that useful. I'm interested in how other people do this.

K.

[redbird]

That's part of the problem, I don't exactly have a scheme, I assign colors to people based on things like what seems to fit them, or what colors they're using in their journal. Or, sometimes, pale/neutral colors that I (think I'm not) using much for other people, and then I realize that I'm confusing two people, and may or may not change one. The closest I have to a rule of thumb is that most communities and all RSS feeds are getting just plain black-on-white, the default.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Those (their journal colours, or what suits them) are two of the schemes I use too. Your journal name is in red on our Friends page, for instance. I have done an extremely half-assed job of giving similar colour schemes to groups of people who are friends with each other.

I find it disconcerting to read someone else's Friends page and see a journal I read displayed in different colours than I use, too. Maybe we should all make a statement about what colours we'd like our journal displayed in?

K.