A Tribute to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme

matogoro, 11 months ago

Ah yes, Windows 3.1 Hot Dog Stand: great color scheme or greatest color scheme?

I also really loved making custom wallpapers with custom pixel patterns. What a throwback

lwhjp, 11 months ago

Ah yes! Not so much themes, but I got a demo copy of a Windows 3.1 shell called Wayfarer from a magazine cover disk, and spent many happy hours setting that up. Also creating mashups of the standard wallpapers in Paintbrush, and fiddling with ChromaZone.

johnpeters42, 11 months ago

I used to spend more time on such things, even to the point of replacing Windows Explorer with Blackbox at least once. Nowadays I just scrounge some wallpapers off the web and put them on rotate.

emr, 11 months ago

Have any screenshots?

lackthought, 11 months ago

I don't have any, but I believe this is the default so you can get an idea of just how intense it is

emr, 11 months ago

My eyes!

cfenollosa, 11 months ago

Now imagine that #FF0000 on a CRT screen 😎

lackthought, 11 months ago

Kramer.gif

tallwookie, 11 months ago

absolutely loathed the hotdog color scheme, and my sister knew it, she'd always change it back to that scheme.

I prefer muted dark colors, easier on my eyes. back in win3.1 I mostly used dos5

lackthought, 11 months ago

ha!

yeah I can see how the theme might be overwhelming, I am partially colorblind thought so maybe that is the reason I found it so appealing