Hi @grams88, great to hear from you again after so long!
Hi Kaywhyn, I think Green or Red would work very well. If I was to vote, Green looks like it would fit in well. 
Is this a new role you got for the (Global Moderator)? Good on you and I think you will make a good Global Moderator.
Yup, I was recently given the global mod role (Icho being the other), as of Friday, March 8 (my time zone of course, I'm sure both Simon and namida were already on Saturday, March 9 when I got the role). Thank you for the compliment!
I will certainly do my best here
Idea: What is the point of the listing in the first place? The difference between admin and moderator is largely irrelevant there.
Very good point! No non-staff member would ever figure out the meaning of the red vs green color without going to either of our profiles and seeing the "administrator" and "global moderator" text, respectively, underneath our username. Let alone whether they can make the connection that red = adminstrator, while green = global moderator currently, since checking just one name of that color isn't sufficient without checking the other names for each of the roles listed here:
https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=2001.0. Though this doesn't work if any have chosen for their online status to be "hidden."
Report the problem upstream? That's where it really belongs. The groups should get icons, not colors. Or the mod colors should be configurable per color scheme. We shouldn't have this color-picking problem in the first place.
Agree that both admins and global mods, not just the admins, should be able to customize the color to his/her liking. I remember after reading Forestidia's report that I was looking around the site myself to see if there was a way I could customize the color for my name. I didn't find any such setting. Even if there was, I think it would change the color for all global mods, not just my name, as I think it's a worldwide site setting, not on a per individual basis. I'm not certain, I could be wrong here.
Support only the dark mode, and make the names light? I don't remember when it became the default. (I override the LF's CSS for myself.) Or support only the light mode?
I'm going to make it clear right now that I have absolutely nothing against the dark theme. It's great, namida did a great job with it. Me going with the SMF theme is purely out of habit because I'm used to it and it's been that way for a long time. It's the same with me staying with Mozilla Firefox as my web browser of choice. I've been using it since high school and though I've heard great things about Google Chrome, like better security and faster load times, to name a few, the main reason I'm still using Firefox today is simply reluctance to switch browsers due to how I'm very used to Firefox.
If you go into the setting for the theme, you'll see that almost everyone uses the dark theme, while there's very few, including myself, who use SMF or another theme, as indicated by the numbers. This would indicate that the best approach is to allow the user to select his/her LF theme preference, despite the very small numbers for the non-dark themes. Forcing the default dark theme on all users wouldn't be the way to go, IMO.
Then again, I did switch to the dark theme for Facebook when it finally became available. Similarly, I have the setting for my phone enabled where it automatically switches to dark theme in the evening and back out to the light theme again in the morning. Also you might recall one time I've posted about how I use the mouse to browse Firefox instead of the keyboard shortcuts. Again, just purely out of habit because I'm so used to the mouse when web browsing. Yea, I know, I'm weird
I'm usually very consistent with everything I do, but it seems nowadays I'm ok with not always being so
Anyway, since it's now known to some here that green is my favorite color, of course I would want my name to remain green as it currently is for global mods. However, I am in agreement that currently it's not ideal depending on the theme picked for the LF site (needs to be darker with SMF, needs to be lighter with the dark theme).
For the red color, yea, it does seem to be the best against either background. However, one piece of advice I received at some point in my teaching career:
Don't use red for grading/correcting! I've taken this advice to heart ever since I was told this some years ago. This is all because red tends to have negative connotations and hence the advice long-time teachers give beginning ones is to use a different color for grading, such as black or blue.
Reason:
https://www.fastcompany.com/3017553/a-lesson-from-teachers-is-red-the-color-of-a-creativity-killerThinking about it, I guess it can be the same for non-staff LF members when they see you, namida, and geoo online, as they won't know that the red color is a false alarm bell to them and that it's nothing to worry about. Again, they can probably figure that the fact the three of you are in a red color has a special meaning, but they won't know what the significance of the color is unless they go to your profile and can make the connection with the "adminstrator" text under the username. Other than the role, there's no other meaning to the red color.
Likewise with green for global mods. As you have stated, there isn't much difference between what each of these roles can do other than the admins can do a bit extra that the global mods can't.
Personally, I like the contrast of the green color for global mods with that of the red color for that of admins, particularly as they go well together IMO, as they are so-called "complementary" colors, a term from art. It really does seem that the best solution would be to allow individual staff members to be able to customize the color to his/her liking. In this way, other global mods who don't like my prefer color of green can pick something else. I don't know if that's possible, and if it is, how easy it is to implement.
