Although it's possible, I think it would be really complicated to sometimes have profile images be profile images and sometimes have them be runtime HTML composites. I don't see any major advantage to doing it in HTML/CSS -- is there anything I'm missing? The only thing that springs to mind is the 2X stuff, but we could composite these images at 2x just as easily (it's just moot right now since we scale profile images down to 50x50 regardless).

(If we eventually retool profile images so they can be covered with hats and wear badges and have special borders, moving to HTML representations might make sense.)

Ah I see. I think these turned out nicely. :)

Yeah -- the workflow I ended up with feels a little weird bit to me and might merit some tweaking at some point, but I think the results look great.

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i am entranced by doge today.

hello doge

Hmm, what do you think about use the light versions of the colors? They seem a little more background-y.

or both? such choices?

I had both in an initial version, although at first glance they seemed a little weird and too desaturated. I had them laid out like red, lightred, blue, lightblue though. Maybe laying them out like red, blue ... lightred, lightblue ... will be more pleasing.

It might also be nice to have a {$black} or {$dark} color (and then {$lightdark}, of course).

You can do little ones too.

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The light colors are really light -- it's hard for me to pick out the icons against them. What do you think?

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We could compose the icons differently (although I'm not sure I can, like, dropshadow in PHP very reasonably without some effort), or stroke the sources / offer dark sources, or use mid flavors of the colors...

no you are right those are terrible. we should then just add the dark like the example and maybe our standard photo background color #c4cde0

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I'm also completely faking the "selected" state for the button. I don't think we have any uses for it elsewhere, but I'm happy to clean this up if we have some reason to build a real state eventually.

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where is doge