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Your New Beta Theme

Your site looks a bit different today. The design changes are a "sneak peek" at the new Stack Exchange Beta theme. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta.
We chose Judaism SE to premiere this new theme because we felt an active community like Judaism SE was the best way to solicit timely feedback (bugs, stuff we missed, etc). Please take a look around to see if anything is missing, misaligned, difficult to read, etc. If everything is in order, we will roll out the new design across the network. A blog post will follow shortly.
Please note: This will not affect your "graduation" status in any way. Judaism SE will still receive its own design when you graduate (soon, hopefully).
If you're still seeing the old favicons, please load the following urls and do a hard browser refresh.
http://sstatic.net/judaism/img/favicon.ico
http://sstatic.net/judaismmeta/img/favicon.ico
Enjoy!

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On the front page (for an experienced user, anyway), the most salient features are the orange "Add" buttons for favorite and ignored tags. This is out of proportion to their importance. It would probably make sense to make these buttons blue instead, so that they don't grab the eye as much.
Meanwhile, the "Ask Question" link at the top-right has lost a great deal prominence, despite its being one of the most important links on the page. This should be enlarged and/or punched up with color, position, or some other aspect.

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The (unselected) checkmark next to an answer looks very like a down-arrow.

Perhaps the left arm of the checkmark could be shortened, or its right arm lengthened, so they are more dissimilar in length.

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Can we choose a lighter shade of red (or another color in general) for char responses:

That red seems too bright against the light background.

