Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4984687-20150326040341/@comment-1251315-20150331211658

The Rim of the Sky wrote: I don't see a point in limiting colours. If anything, they make it easier to distinguish considering the wiki's dark format. The problem is that, because we use coloured usernames to identify staff groups, people could easily pick colours just slightly different to the hex codes used for the highlights, but be close enough to look like they are staff. We could have a policy that simply states "do not use any colours that are used by staff groups or are excessively bright or dark".

Frankly, I never really liked the idea of colours in signatures, they're not really meant to draw the eye (hell, some people tried to have a marquee or sparkles in their sigs... >_>) and are only for identifying comments in talkpage discussions.