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I know this probably sounds like a very minor issue that might not be worth making a thread about, but the conversation has come up a few times in the Discord chat before, and this time it was recommended that I make a thread here about it.
So, the three staff departments are all different shades of red, in order to make them easy to tell apart at a glance. Maintenance is easy to recognize at a glance, because it is much pinker than the other two. But Security and Community are very similar. I really can't tell the difference unless I'm comparing them side-by-side. This becomes an issue (so I've been told...) when newbie members are told that Security members are "the darkest red", and then newbies mistakenly contact Community members about security-related issues. (There was a Community staffer who told me that this has happened. Unfortunately I don't remember who it was that said that...)
Also, while I can sort of see the difference between Security and Community red on the forum (when comparing them side-by-side, at least), I noticed that, on the Iwaku Discord server, the Community red actually looks darker to me than the Security red (except for Peregrine, who is significantly darker than all the Security and Community staff due to being the Security lead). I only just now noticed that Community is such a dark red on Discord, which is why I mentioned it there, which led to me making this thread.
I know it's not a huge issue, especially with the banners that Staff members have under their names, but, if it's caused confusion for newbie members before, then, maybe tweaking the colors would be a good thing to do. If the colors for two of the departments are too hard to tell apart, then that kind of defeats the purpose of having three distinct shades of red.
So, the three staff departments are all different shades of red, in order to make them easy to tell apart at a glance. Maintenance is easy to recognize at a glance, because it is much pinker than the other two. But Security and Community are very similar. I really can't tell the difference unless I'm comparing them side-by-side. This becomes an issue (so I've been told...) when newbie members are told that Security members are "the darkest red", and then newbies mistakenly contact Community members about security-related issues. (There was a Community staffer who told me that this has happened. Unfortunately I don't remember who it was that said that...)
Also, while I can sort of see the difference between Security and Community red on the forum (when comparing them side-by-side, at least), I noticed that, on the Iwaku Discord server, the Community red actually looks darker to me than the Security red (except for Peregrine, who is significantly darker than all the Security and Community staff due to being the Security lead). I only just now noticed that Community is such a dark red on Discord, which is why I mentioned it there, which led to me making this thread.
I know it's not a huge issue, especially with the banners that Staff members have under their names, but, if it's caused confusion for newbie members before, then, maybe tweaking the colors would be a good thing to do. If the colors for two of the departments are too hard to tell apart, then that kind of defeats the purpose of having three distinct shades of red.