Timeline for Stack Overflow Redesign: Color and Typography
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| Nov 1, 2025 at 17:41 | answer | added | N. Virgo | timeline score: 7 | |
| Oct 31, 2025 at 22:35 | answer | added | peterh | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 29, 2025 at 15:38 | answer | added | Catija | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 15, 2025 at 22:48 | comment | added | user4581301 | I can distinguish more of the colours in the new palette, so that's a plus. In the shot of the current palette most of the first line all looks the same to me. It's smaller than palette 2, so maybe it got a little smooshed and in reality it's no worse, but based on what's presented 2 >1. | |
| Oct 15, 2025 at 5:35 | comment | added | wobtax | Oh I do hope we get a hot dog redesign this April 1. Or frutiger aero... | |
| Oct 10, 2025 at 19:18 | comment | added | starball Mod | piper, in the "new" screenshots, it looks like the user is logged in and on the questions page, but I don't see the community bulletin. is it going to be there in the usual place in the real thing? it's pretty important. | |
| Oct 10, 2025 at 19:15 | comment | added | starball Mod | @Boann not trolling. I spotted the green and pink in that picture! do I win a prize? | |
| Oct 10, 2025 at 14:01 | comment | added | Boann | @starball Are you actually trolling me right now? Am I being pranked? You present the entire spectrum as your "palette" and then the only actual color in the design is advertisements. | |
| Oct 10, 2025 at 12:41 | answer | added | VLAZ | timeline score: 18 | |
| Oct 10, 2025 at 5:25 | comment | added | starball Mod | @Boann without elaboration, that sounds like your opinion? (which would be valid, but still an opinion). in any case, I don't see how calling this a colour palette is "pretending". are there examples of colour palettes which you find good that you want to share? bonus points if it's also alliterated. | |
| Oct 10, 2025 at 2:59 | comment | added | Boann | I don't know how you can with a straight face pretend you have a "color palette". Look at the screenshot. It's utterly bland, blank, boring, brandless. What a downgrade. | |
| Oct 9, 2025 at 6:44 | comment | added | Tinkeringbell Mod | @starball Very true. The comments under that old post of mine that I linked talk about the same, different users, different needs. (Part of why I linked it, there's also already a very good answer about that to this very question). My comment was more to point out that it was tried before and not very well received at all, so... ugh. | |
| Oct 9, 2025 at 6:39 | comment | added | starball Mod | @Tinkeringbell in a perhaps more ideal world, the user'd have more/easier control over this (without userscripting?). spacing can also be an accessibility thing- where low word spacing or line width / spacing can be a barrier. just want to throw out there that people have differing wants / needs. | |
| Oct 9, 2025 at 5:45 | comment | added | Tinkeringbell Mod | All I can say is... ugh, more line-height, again?!... It wasn't a big success for me 5 years ago, I still have userscripts running on devices that support them to be able to read the sites without overexerting my scrolling finger, and I would really not like any more whitespace between letters and even less information density. | |
| Oct 8, 2025 at 4:59 | comment | added | V2Blast StaffMod | @rene: I think Piper may actually be thinking of the "Filters for Stack Overflow" thing that the company did for April Fool's 2022; one of the "filters" was the Hot Dog Stand one. | |
| Oct 7, 2025 at 16:50 | answer | added | bad_coder | timeline score: 10 | |
| Oct 7, 2025 at 10:47 | answer | added | Elements In Space | timeline score: 16 | |
| Oct 6, 2025 at 19:35 | comment | added | rene Mod | @Piper yeah, I think 2019 and still as US available on Stack Apps. Glad I can help you find inspiration ;) | |
| Oct 6, 2025 at 18:41 | comment | added | Piper Staff | @rene Didn't we also do a hotdog theme for april fools a few years ago too? Most of those themes were "eye-stabbing" but I loved it all the same | |
| Oct 6, 2025 at 17:46 | answer | added | Journeyman Geek | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 6, 2025 at 17:37 | answer | added | voided | timeline score: 49 | |
| Oct 6, 2025 at 17:02 | answer | added | wizzwizz4 | timeline score: 32 | |
| Oct 6, 2025 at 17:00 | answer | added | VLAZ | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 6, 2025 at 16:44 | history | edited | SlateStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 6, 2025 at 16:35 | history | edited | SlateStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 6, 2025 at 16:28 | answer | added | Journeyman Geek | timeline score: 18 | |
| Oct 6, 2025 at 16:24 | comment | added | rene Mod | @devlincarnate it was pretty popular , back in the days .... | |
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| Oct 6, 2025 at 16:14 | comment | added | devlin carnate | I hope this means the previously proposed Hot Dog theming has been binned. This proposal is far less eye-stabbing. | |
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| Oct 6, 2025 at 16:05 | history | asked | PiperStaff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
