Request for revert of the top bar background colour

Question

I would like to request that the background colour of the top bar gets reverted to the previous warm brownish. There are three reasons for this:

1. The black top bar is the most emphasized element of the site now, which is surely not the intention.

2. Its colour doesn't fit the warm, smooth and pleasant look of the site at all.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Forget what I just said, Sean's link is way better than my pathetic implementation. :)

Is anyone else personally terrified of the new bar at the top?

If you want to keep the avatars, just comment the following part of the code:

/*

  .user-gravatar32,
  .gravatar,
  .avatar-me {
    display: none !important;
  }

*/

woohoo! :)

---

_{The following text is kept for historical reasons.}

I'm really enraged, so desperate times call for desperate measures. :)

I decided to go with Stylish and add the following script to both meta and main:

@-moz-document url-prefix("http://meta.tex."), url-prefix("http://tex.") {

  .topbar, .topbar a, .topbar:hover, .topbar a:hover {
    background-color:#F5F5F5 !important;
    color:black !important;
  }

}

You will probably recognize this .css, right? :)

The resulting top bar I get with the previous code is

which is way lighter than the original dark colour. :)

Answer 2

Going by the blog post announcing/explaining the change, it sounds like your main request of a colour revert is unlikely to be granted:

So, in the redesigned top bar, we wanted to make sure that it would look the same across all sites, and make it obvious that you’re on a Stack Exchange site. It turns out that when you try to pick a color to match 40 different site designs, you quickly realize you only have one real choice: black.

Re your other suggestions, the post also points to the top-bar tag on meta.stackoverflow as the main way to give feedback on the new design.