I both appreciate the discussion of distrowatch website color and have a different opinion.

Before I knew dark reader (or Stylish for opera, back in the good days for that software) I always appreciated and didn’t think much about the pages brown color tone. I also looked up when paper bleaching started, around 1930s.

Hemp paper is stronger than paper, and was used for hundreds of years before trees were cut for paper.

Why do reading books use un-bleached paper? Why must everything seen as current be some shade of blue? Even yellow-green has been swapped for teal-green as I’m sure you may have noticed. Android changed from yellow-green, Xbox uses a teal-green on the new xbox for the startup animation, the older xbox used a full green, instead of the yellows and greenish yellow of the 360.

Windows 98 used a greyish teal-green and for windows 2K use a faded grey-aqua and many icons changed to match.

Linux Mint used to use a yellowish-green and now use a more neutral green both in desktop software and on the website.

Why do we perceive some colors as old? Is it because most things used to be made of wood or metal, or old paper is brown? That reminds me, Ubuntu sure doesn’t use brown anymore, I liked 7.04 theme.

If anything we should be getting back to the Earth and soil more, not less, so we should appreciate nature’s colors, because they are older than humanity and nature is still supporting us, and has no need for us, but we need nature to survive.

Whatever the reason, I figured out the yellow-tan of Distrowatch on the sides, screen capture and opened in Gimp for color picker.

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I enlarged just the list of distros, so I didn’t measure the middle, I like the tan instead of the pale yellow, it’s actually very light if you set the whole wallpaper / website color to that, I thought it would be stronger.

I believe it may be some of the reason why I have settled on

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It is designed to match the album cover art of what appears to be a natural fiber weaved together. A less than full brightness better matches the picture, but it has a lot of lighter and darker spots, I’d rather match the lighter spots but it just loses the overall tone, so I settled on something a bit dimmer.