The election message in the community bulletin looks bad

Question

...and you should feel bad.

I appreciate that elections are super-cool and exciting and should be highlighted, but that shade of red is not very readable on that shade of grey. Other people have pointed out that darkish red on dark grey is also extremely difficult to read when colorblind.

If it matters, this is reproducible on both Chrome and Firefox under Windows.

Answer 1

How about making it yellow instead? This stands out more in my opinion:

This yellow (#FBE253) is already in the site palette, it's the colour used for the 10k flag queue count.

Answer 2

I'm marking this as status-completed, since the bulletin has undergone some network-wide changes a while back. It currently looks like this (it's from MathOverflow, but aside from the favicon it would look the same on Arqade):

Answer 3

This userscript code will fix the text for you (adapted from this):

// ==UserScript==
// @name       Community Bulletin Election Fix
// @description Makes the Election bulletin readable
// @match      http://*.gaming.stackexchange.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

function addGlobalStyle(css) {
    var head, style;
    head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
    if (!head) { return; }
    style = document.createElement('style');
    style.type = 'text/css';
    style.innerHTML = css;
    head.appendChild(style);
}

addGlobalStyle("#sidebar .module.community-bulletin a { color: #E6D364 !important; }");

Answer 4

I'll bet you clicked on it though.