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They appear yellow to me
– Luuklag
Commented Mar 10, 2020 at 8:00
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@Luuklag If you are viewing the site from a mobile device the css changes haven't been propagated there. If however you are viewing the site from a desktop browser the quotes have been changed to have a white background.
– illustro
Commented Mar 10, 2020 at 18:54
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medium purple with lavender would be nice
– bzr
Commented Mar 10, 2020 at 22:21
Maybe I haven’t had enough caffeine yet today, but I’m having trouble understanding some of the arguments on this page. Are you intentionally undermining your own position? Because you say that a “highly prestigious” American newspaper “occasionally … uses the single gray bar to distinguish quotations from the rest of the article”; that seems to suggest that the gray bar can be expected to be self-explanatory to users with no IT / engineering background. … (Cont’d)
– Scott - Слава Україні
Commented Mar 18, 2020 at 4:29
(Cont’d) … P.S. This is a bad example because the subheadings (underlined with “-”) punctuate your answer at a high level, and thereby frame / delimit the block quotes. And, while I dislike the new block quote format, I find myself getting used to it very quickly.
– Scott - Слава Україні
Commented Mar 18, 2020 at 4:29
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@Scott I also added that the font size is also reduced, which makes it clearer. You can get used to anything in life, doesn't mean it's necessarily good.
– Mari-Lou A Слава Україні
Commented Mar 18, 2020 at 9:10
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@Mari-LouA just a curious note: the yellow highlighter is used in several high circulation newspapers. It's efficient, as a design choice I saw it starting being used precisely when printed newspapers were thrown into a sales crisis by the internet. I still use fluorescent highlighter in my personal notebook, what's not to like about it? A mild/cold color may be more pleasing, but do we want to take "warmth" from our posts? Worth noting: it was the only color posters could use...Sigh*
– bad_coder
Commented Mar 22, 2020 at 2:49

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