Colour Scheme for Forums?

[espmartin]

I LOVE the browns on this forum: Text Links Forum - that's my favorite
color scheme that I've seen so far on any forum I belong to

[Resonate]

I like the purple, black & red on my forum Experience Advertising | Internet Marketing and Affiliate Marketing Forums - Powered by vBulletin

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For some reason this post has duplicated from earlier in the thread, can a admin/mod please delete it.

[xhan]

pink green and white!

Not having a dig at this forum or any others but I really really really HATE blue. Its too default for my liking. I've never liked the colour funny seeing as I love every other!

[Stephanie]

An interesting question, I like blue but I also like the red (such as on our BizFace - we changed that from blue to red to try to make it more interesting). Although some research does support the idea that people find blues and greens relaxing and red tones exciting (or a warning) there are clearly individual differences (as we have seen here!)

I suspect there are 'popular' sites out there that will tell you what your colour preference says about your personality, perhaps extroverts prefer red for example because they need more excitement (due to their low natural level of stimulation - honest that is why they are so excitable).

I wonder though if there are environmental aspects too, if you are used to working on one colour perhaps it becomes boring?

Do any of you feel you are influenced by your current forum skins?

(Hope that's the right terminology!)

[rhyswynne]

I like the blues. I love blue colours, but it depends on the nature of the forum I guess.

[Bisje]

Well, as I've seen others do, I'll promote my own forum : Het Forum van Eric's Boekensite - Forumindex

[ursfehr]

I think colours mean very much for a forum, it also attracts guests to sign up,

[Meti]

Originally Posted by ursfehr

I think colours mean very much for a forum, it also attracts guests to sign up,

I couldn't agree any more, although content and activity is also something that usually attracts a visitor. Which colours do you prefer any way?

- Meti

[SkinnerW]

Even though our forum new skin is not completed yet but I already love what I see...

[xhan]

Originally Posted by SkinnerW

Even though our forum new skin is not completed yet but I already love what I see...

Yeh I'm quite appreciating the red - so much nicer!