Google Dark: Insert moody music here

by Jordan Running (RSS feed) Oct 12th 2006 at 1:54PM

Do Google's bright white background and big, colorful logo offend your more somber sensibilities? Google Dark might be the cure for what ails you. It's a Greasemonkey script that replaces the Google home page with a darker, and some might say a little more slick, version. In addition, it makes the logo a little smaller and gives it an updated look, and makes the fonts a big bigger. All very Web 2.0. Unfortunately, Google Dark only transforms the Google home page and not results pages or any other Google sites. I would love to see a more complete version of this script that does all of the above, but I realize that might be asking a bit much.

Tags: black, dark, google, google dark, GoogleDark, greasemonkey, skin, user script, UserScript

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jason said 3:01PM on 10-12-2006

I use the firefox extension "stylish" and the "Google Web Search - Dark blue redesign" at userstyles.org. Screenshots and all at http://userstyles.org/style/show/843

Jarques said 10:24PM on 10-12-2006

Oh wow, thanks for the..err, plug? :P

Someone has actually taken my script and extended it into the Google search results page, cleverly named 'Google Dark Extended'. It can be found here:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4211

I actually stopped working on Google Dark ages ago, but I am willing to reply to emails.

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