New color Scheme for Team Treehouse

I don't mind it so much, myself. But I can understand your frustration. With so many new topics becoming available at Treehouse, I can see how its hard to add new colors. If anything it is only simplifying the grouping of subject matter.

Hey there! We do appreciate your feedback, and have made sure to share this with our Design Team as well. Thanks!

I agree! The old theme was better :)

It made it easier to distinguish between languages/topics.

I'm a fan. Grouping all of the front-end courses under one colour is a great idea. It's not like we navigate the site exclusively by colour do we? It's now very easy to tell what direction my course choices are leading me.

I get having more than 20 topics is hard when it comes to colors, but I think this change wasn't really tested with accesibility in mind. I'm a bit short-sighted and I usually like to do the courses without glasses or lenses on, I just adjust the zoom a bit. I could clearly distinguish the different colors before (around my avatar e.g.), now it's all a blurry mess of dark all-alike colors.

I'm definitely going to miss the old color scheme; it had a more "fun" look and made it easier to spot specific topics I was interested in. I understand identifying by categories, but it doesn't relate to my interests like identifying by topic did. But frankly, I've been suspecting it might not be sustainable with the ever-increasing number of topics and the associated increasing difficulty in choosing visually distinctive colors for them.

Then after reading the blog article I understand WCAG compliance was another motivation for the change. I've been finding that a significant restriction on creativity myself recently with projects that require compliance. The AA standard doesn't allow for much deviation. It's ironic that the standard intended to help those who have trouble resolving low contrast also works against those who have trouble resolving color differences.

I do agree with Martin on this one. Right now the colors are way to dark which makes it hard to see the difference, especially when you use the small dots. Even for me it's hard (looking at the dots), let alone for someone that is color blind.

That said, grouping it in a different way is a good thing! Combining this with the old color scheme would make it much better in my opinion.

I understand the idea behind the new color scheme but I have to say this. Does most of it have to be different shades of blue? It makes it much harder to differentiate the categories. Could have went with red, blue, green and pink to make them stand out more without running out of colors. Simplified but not over complicated which is what I feel like all these shades of blue does.

I know that treehouse was running out of colors, but now the color scheme is so dark. I like bright colors, like the old python pink.

Perhaps they could ring the new color dot with the old color. That wouldn't be as simple as it used to be, but it would allow for both color schemes.

I understand the reasoning, but the old color scheme was better. The new colors are way too drab, and too close together in hue. There are basically only three colors. So why bother at all? I understand the WCAG thing, but why not allow options for WCAG compliance? A toggle perhaps in one's profile?

I can't differentiate between courses/tracks like I used to. For me, it's like you removed color-coding altogether.

This was my favorite course website, but now your "improved" UI is creating a worse UX. Perhaps take the classes you offer in those areas.

The old scheme was better!!!

The old color scheme was way better, made more sense and it was much easier to differentiate the topics. Now the colors are just boring :(