We could pretend that it's black.

Color change issues aside, I've just been obstinately using capital-m Music on mefi, and "Metafilter Music" elsewhere.

I'm using the plaintext color scheme, so everything's black and white. It really enhances the Mefi experience, IMO.

It isn't black? I always think of the Queensrÿche lyric: "I peg the needles as I hit the black." And it's HiFi for short.

I suggest a white background. Ya know, so it looks professional.

I suggest putting puke & cry up against a white background then beating him until he's black and blue.

And Matt's wisdom in NOT expanding the MetaFilter color palate into the reds and browns was proven recently when the most ridiculed part of Fark's redesign was those "rainbow disconnection" "rooty tooty fresh and fruity" multi-colored tabs. They are pretty obnoxious looking, which means they are much better suited for a site like Fark, yet even the Farkers do not like them. Still, I doubt that it would be good for sections of MeFi to become known as "the brown" (intellectual property of UPS?) or "the maroon" (too close to 'moron') or "the crimson", "the scarlet", "the puce", "the rust" or "the umber".

I always thought HiFi was synonymous with the front page (that is, HiFi vs. LoFi).

But if that's not the case, put me in the HiFi camp.

wendell -- Eh, aesthetics schmaesthetics. It doesn't necessarily have to look good. Function over form is the goal here. You're right, though, a red or pink HiFi would probably look atrocious.

White is already taken by Jobs.

I can hear the colors, man.