alt.hn

5/12/2026 at 4:45:33 PM

A Tribute to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme (2005)

 https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-tribute-to-the-windows-31-hot-dog-stand-color-scheme/

by washingupliquid

5/12/2026 at 5:51:34 PM

Not in Windows, but in my teens I happened across a very similar color scheme on my Commodore 64, and used it for quite a while.

Something about red text on a yellow background made pixel-level details on my television set seem much crisper. The default light-blue on dark blue, for instance, was much blurrier. I'm not sure if it was an illusion, or something actually grounded in the display technology of old CRTs.

by kbelder

5/12/2026 at 6:06:59 PM

Do you still remember hotbot's color scheme? I guess back in the days we all were brave and less boring.

by riedel

5/12/2026 at 6:48:36 PM

Palm OS (5, I think?) had a few unhinged ones as well.

I sometimes miss the time when UIs didn’t take themselves too seriously.

by lxgr

5/12/2026 at 6:53:32 PM

palmos4 had butterfly, which really let you generate some horrors

by nekooooo