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It's true that many logos use very drab colors in order to not irk people who are "too old to enjoy life anymore". Camelia shouldn't do that. However, rather than jumping to the opposite extreme, there's IMO an optimum to be found somewhere.

Colors that have each RGB channel either completely on or off, are literally the extremes of the available spectrum. Considering that the spectrum has to be used for everything from large backgrounds to small glows/glares and highlights, it is unlikely that the extremes provide the best choice for a logo's fill colors. Especially since the different RGB channels are perceived quite differently from each other (in lightness/intensity etc) by the human eye.

Regarding being "the accent on a web page", the colors on my version are still bright & saturated enough to easily do that. I did not mean to suggest that the web page should be painted in the exact same colors as the logo; but rather that a significantly softer, darker tone of one or two of the logo colors should be integrated into the main web page design, to effectively "mirror" the logo across the page and make it feel like everything belongs together.

To achieve that, though, the logo colors need to have stylish hues, and should not be so glaring that the visual relation to the softer web page colors is lost. Rather than try to explain it further (which I don't seem to be very good at), let me show you a WIP sketch for the proposed new perl6.org that I'm working on:

http://i.imgur.com/jBXkUgW.png

This uses my previously suggested version of the Camelia colors, with which the chosen website colors IMO fit in quite nicely. With the current official Camelia colors OTOH, it looks kind of jarring:

http://i.imgur.com/0kDEeeu.png

...and I haven't been able to fix that by tweaking the website background colors while still keeping them stylish and the text on them pleasantly readable.

Which is not to say that it wouldn't work with any colors that are more bright/glaring than the ones from my suggested Camelia version.

Would a kind of compromise between the two be within the realms of acceptability, or are you (TimToady) married to the exact colors which Camelia has now?

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