Thread:CzechOut/@comment-29190231-20160814075721/@comment-188432-20160814200113

You're very welcome. I did want to follow up with a little bit of history about HP infoboxes, in case you weren't familiar with the whole arc of them.

The colour scheme there originated with the community itself, and I merely translated what was already extant into PI code. Obviously, colours for things like the main Houses -- Hufflepuff and whatnot -- come from their visualisation in the dining hall flags seen in the film series. The only time where I changed what had existed before was when the contrast ratio between the font colour and the background was so very low that people with most visual acuities couldn't read it. You know the sort of thing: white on blanched almond, for instance.

But as you get deeper into the infoboxes -- which is to say, as the number of pages on which an infobox appears dwindles -- the colours don't necessarily have an on-screen rationale. There are quite a few cases where the colours are effectively arbitrary -- or just repeats from other infooboxes that aren't necessarily related.

Also a lot of the arbitrary choices have been made with the current, overall theme in mind. "How good does this combination look against this color here ?" is almost certainly something that the community considered on at least some of the boxes. Since you've not currently chosen that chocolatey-brown color for your wiki, your mileage may vary.

My point is this: the colours (aside from maybe the Houses, Schools and Teams) aren't sacred, and you probably don't need to match them up exactly to HP's efforts -- particularly if they don't look good in your overall wiki theme.