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website colors: "...some colors were much more popular than others. Red, for example, was heavily used [...], and so I guess the secret is out about the efficacy of red in web design, but I was a little surprised to realize that blue was so heavily used (I had mostly associated it with Google/Facebook)—but also orange is surprisingly common beyond just “the orange site”…? Meanwhile, purple appears to be increasingly popular, particularly for sites which are adopting a dark esthetic ." https://gwern.net/web-color
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christian rap confirmed: "While purple remains a tricky color to work with, due to its extremely strong connotations of royalty, gay men, small girls (eg. My Little Pony), or all 3 (Catholicism), yellow-brown seems more versatile."
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posturing: "Purple-black definitely has certain connotations of “Rust hacker”, if you know what I mean."
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