User blog comment:AnimationFan15/Backgrounds: Old vs. New/@comment-26901681-20171224223548

The old ones were more unique, but had issues. At least some did. Mrs. Johnson, Lincoln, Lana, and Bobby, to name a few, were too dark. Only changing them is something that we could have done. However, it shouldn't hurt to have a clean consistency among all character backgrounds. At the moment, everyone has a shade of their specific color and are clean to where it's very easy to read the text. To me, design comes before the content of an article.

I thoroughly explained exactly what it'd be like if option three (in the discussion) was chosen and even showed what it'd be like before the changes were made. Everyone that voted for the third option knew exactly what was going to happen. I'm not sure what all the hoopla is about the colors being lighter and contrasting better with the text. Are they as eye appealing now as they were before? No. The new BG templates are to have a better consistency among all pages, which potentially helps the wiki with FANDOM Staff, since they really want wikis as large as this one to have colors that make text very easy to read.