Well, I hope Jeff didn't put too much time into finding the color pallet. I don't want to be negative, but this background color just makes we want to run away/close the page.
Maybe these links which I collected over the years can be helpful:
There's no fundamental problem with the color chosen, so those last two probably won't be of much use. Anyway, I have no problems with the background. Curious you had that visceral of a reaction
The orange color seems quite harmless, and the text is still black on white. Plus you can get the orange borders to go away by resizing the window. So I really don't see the problem.
Well, I hope Jeff didn't put too much time into finding the color pallet. I don't want to be negative, but this background color just makes we want to run away/close the page.
Maybe these links which I collected over the years can be helpful:
- https://www.colorcombos.com
- https://paletton.com
- https://blog.datawrapper.de/beautifulcolors/
- https://design.lyft.com/re-approaching-color-9e604ba22c88 (ColorBox)