I’m in the process of redesigning the theme on the Apocalypse Blog and I’ve been stuck on the colors. I know the basic color scheme I want to use…red, orange, black… alarming colors… apocalyptic colors. I used them in the original theme. I’ve been running into a lot of issues, though - for instance, it seems like the only thing that looks good on red is black. Other colors are just… dim. So I shouldn’t be using black for section headers, although it does look very dramatic and apocalyptic.

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