Some tme ago the British chocolate manufacturer was bought by Kraft. Super sweet meets super bland. Anyway, Kraft being American and having too many corporate lawyers tried to copyright the Cadbury colour purple. They may have succeeded, I don't know, it wasn't the sort of news item you hung in for followup. Perhaps we will find out if Daniweb gets sued for infringement.
What am I saying here? Oh, yeah. Purple.
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Jump to PostApparently, you can trademark a color even though it is difficult.
Click HereCadbury Purple (Pantone 2865c) Click Here
Darker than Dani-Purple.
Jump to PostMen who say "XYZ is for girls" just need more confidence in their masculinity
Come over here and say that, I'll slap you with my handbag. ;) Anyway, I just spent 10 minutes painting DW a manly Green via Stylish add-on:
Jump to PostAnyway, I just spent 10 minutes painting DW a manly Green
Maybe a lil' darker. The contrast isn't quite high enough with the white and gray (especially the gray) to really hit home as a good color scheme.
Jump to PostI remember back in the day, each category (Software Dev, Web Dev, etc) was a different color scheme
Hehe. I actually used to rather like the color coded DaniWeb, and was pretty mortified when it was scrapped. But then I'm a bit of a 'Sheldon' sometimes when it …
Jump to PostIt used to be a connotation that it was a gay colour (Lesbian?)
It's also a connotation of Royalty. Guess which was first :)
I thought lavender was gay. Good thing this isn't BruciWeb... ;)
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