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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Jan 1, 2023 02:27 AM UTC in reply to Greg Strong from 12:58 AM:

So any posting of new default color schemes is completely inappropriate without first establishing a DEFINITION OF PROBLEM to be solved

H. G. did this several comments ago by complaining that the colors were too loud. I added the criterion that the colors should generally reflect the olive/beige coloring used in tournament boards. H. G. also praised one of the color combinations I offered for how well the colors contrasted with each other. Let's look at some boards side-by-side and compare them on these criteria.

  1. With the change in pieces, the one on the left seems less loud than it did before, though it may still be louder than the one on the right.
  2. On my desktop at least, both seem to have high contrast. The yellow spaces on the left contrast very well with the blue pieces, and the green is bright enough that it contrasts well with the more subdued blue of Black's pieces. The dark khaki color is technically a yellow and it also contrasts well with the blue pieces. The white smoke color is different enough from the full white of the White pieces to contrast with them.
  3. The left board has green for dark spaces, and the yellow spaces may be accepted as a substitute for beige or white. The right board has off-white spaces, and its dark khaki spaces seem green when they aren't being compared directly to green. It also resembles the olive color more than it does other greens.

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