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Game profile colors on the Main Profile

Avi_Roo02

New Member
Hello. I have a suggestion regarding the colors used for game profiles. I noticed that some platforms have very similar colors. For example, I don't understand why Steam and Epic have almost the same color. Epic could have a different color so it would stand out more in the pie chart statistics. The same goes for Retro. Retro could use yellow, which would make it easier to tell apart from the other platforms. PlayStation should use a dark blue, while Ubisoft should use a light blue. Blizzard could use a similar light shade. Xbox should have a darker color so it’s easier to tell apart from Google Play. 🤔
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The colors were mostly chosen based on whatever is most prominent for that service or used in logos. I think for Google Play we originally had it a lighter green to match the Android branding, however they moved away from that and the green they use now is basically close to Xbox: https://play-lh.googleusercontent.c...3zAgUtxL7rRHmyeEFSvnd6Af0lCyqICjZah7w=s400-rw

For Retro yes it could be yellow as it's basically 50/50 on their usage of blue and yellow over there. But I'm not really sure I want to change the default since that's how it's been for so long.

Inevitably as more services are added in the future we're going to run out of colors to use anyway. So - maybe it would be best to add a option for allowing users to set their own personalized colors. Would only apply while logged in of course, the defaults would stay the same.
 
Maybe the solid colours could be replaced by a gradient of 2 similar colours?
I'm imagining a radial gradient for the doughnut chart, a corresponding linear one for the little legend boxes.
For instance Xbox green could be changed to go from yellowish green to green, Android green could go from green to dark green... or something like that.
 
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