Isn't your display boring in winter?

In the southern hemisphere, there's summer right now, apples and kids are growing, people at the beach in swimsuits (where applicable), flowers, warm, bright or rainy day.

Isn't your display pale in summer?

Mine is. To mend the situation, I've made up a CSS with colours as follows: I grabbed Saints in our Book, extracted the node_id of the monkses homenodes, left-padded each with 'f' up to 6 chars where necessary and used that as colour for all monk related divs, for e.g. merlyn that is

[class$="9073"], [class$="9073"] * { background: #ff9073;}
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diotalevi loaded the resulting css and went Eek!

Thanks diotalevi. I concur. For even more Eekness, show your colours!

Include your favourite foreground and background colours as fg=#AABBCC bg=#DDEEFF somewhere in your homenode or /msg me your preferences. From that I'll make up a CSS which, when loaded via Display Settings, will render each monk's "Other Users" list entry, chatterbox line, node, Recently Active Threads and so on with their own, true colours. I'm sure the result will be startling, at least.

Now I'm off to the CSS Zen Garden to calm my eyes.

--shmem

update: screenshots - Newest Nodes and Recently Active Threads just look wunderfol :) zentara's answer now looks like it should.

update2: To use this css together with other css files (e.g. themes), the colormonk directives must be loaded after the theme file. There's the directive @import url("http://example.com/cssfile") directive for that, but all imports must be first in the css file. So, another level of indirection is needed:

/* load dark theme first for defaults */
@import url("http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=227261");
/* load the colormonk.css */
@import url("http://cruft.de/l.css");
/* last, overwrite some attributes with reported personal settings */
@import url("http://cruft.de/monkprefs.css");
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Stick that into "Onsite CSS" in Display Settings. For bright themes, use lr.css.

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}