Web-design update

I have changed the color palette of this site in keeping with my minimalist philosophy. Granted, color is not really bloat, since going from multi-color to monochrome does not affect the size of the html or css file. However, the UI was looking rather “busy”, and I was having to make awkward decisions about how to style various elements in a way that made sense and was visually appealing. The color scheme was based on Gruvbox, which is my favorite for use in Vim and… well almost everything in my Linux setup. However, it doesn’t always work, and I feel it doesn’t work here. Gruvbox was designed to help developers/programmers parse their code better. But a webpage is mostly prose, not code; so it doesn’t work in this context. Nevertheless, the monochrome palette I am using now is still based on Gruvbox. I’m simply taking the background and foreground color spectrum to style the various HTML elements.

The biggest question then was whether the webpage should be primarily light colored or dark colored. Initially it was going to be the former, except that it is too bright at night. I know most people do not have a yellow-light setting on their computer or a dark mode plugin on their browser, so the page would probably be too taxing on the eyes after sunset. Therefore I’ve made the decision to go with a dark color on the main text and a light color on the sidebar. If the user still feels that it is too bright at night, I recommend using the Dark Reader extension for your web browser. When turned on, the bright colors are changed to dark to prevent eye sore. However, how the page ends up looking will depend on the color scheme used in Dark Reader.