BREAKING: ArXiv changes toolbar color from #AE2A24 to #1C1A17
RIP "ArXiv Crimson Red" (1991 – 2026) 🟥 🔴 ❤️
Academics criticized the corporate-style update and demanded a revert
BREAKING: ArXiv changes toolbar color from #AE2A24 to #1C1A17
RIP "ArXiv Crimson Red" (1991 – 2026) 🟥 🔴 ❤️
Many users objected to ArXiv changing its toolbar color from crimson red to black, calling the update terrible and mourning the loss of the original academic feel.
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@jxmnop

@jxmnop wow, what a terrible decision
We never thought that arXiv leaving Cornell would mean that we'd be losing that comfy Cornell Red 💔
I guess now we have to get used to "Repository Brown"...
BREAKING: ArXiv changes toolbar color from #AE2A24 to #1C1A17
RIP "ArXiv Crimson Red" (1991 – 2026) 🟥 🔴 ❤️

@jxmnop never written a userscript faster in my life

@jxmnop crimson red has an academic feel to it that i can't simply describe. rip.

@jxmnop this is terrible had to double check
Truly outrageous! Not unlike Jaguar removing its cat logo. Whoever has the power to influence this to be changed back, please act now!
BREAKING: ArXiv changes toolbar color from #AE2A24 to #1C1A17
RIP "ArXiv Crimson Red" (1991 – 2026) 🟥 🔴 ❤️
I'm not making this up: https://info.arxiv.org/brand/colors.html
We never thought that arXiv leaving Cornell would mean that we'd be losing that comfy Cornell Red 💔
I guess now we have to get used to "Repository Brown"...

@jxmnop oh god

@jowenpetty time for you to graduate!

@jxmnop No change this back immediately 😖😭

@jxmnop Black Tuesday

@jxmnop this is criminal

@jxmnop NO

@jxmnop RIP

@jxmnop ewwww

@jxmnop red is better

@thegautamkamath arxiv and I have very different definitions of brown

@jxmnop ewwwww 🤮🤢🤮

@jxmnop Red is way better 🫠