which of these 2 color schemes?

I vote for the 2nd scheme, but with the word “menu” in that tan color.

Well, I like img156.imageshack.us/img156/9162/scheme2lp8.jpg best, but I don’t care for the pale gold in it (or in the other one either).

The pale gold should be some sort of green. Maybe I should give it more character.
The reason I designed the 2nd one was because I think the first one is a little bit too depressing and I wanted some more cheerful colors. I probably haven’t succeeded very well.

Thanks for the replies.

Things look different depending on monitors. The pale gold was on my dev screen, it’s more of a washed out tan on my main screen….

I like scheme 2, and like Vkaryl I’m not too fussed on the font color. Too washed out.

On my monitor the font color is either pale olive or tan.

It seems like the blue and green won’t be any good. My goal with these two colors was to create something as bright as https://www.jeuxdemaux.com/ (without its graphical finesse cause I can’t create that) but it doesn’t seem to work out.
https://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2788/scheme3pi1.jpg
https://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2668/scheme4ht0.jpg
https://img86.imageshack.us/img86/4581/scheme5rs3.jpg

In any case, I’ll certainly remove the font color.

Oh – those are ALL much better! ANY of those are better than the jeuxdmaux site!

vkaryl, do you mean those 3 are better than the previous 2, or just that any of those 5 are better than jeuxdemaux? I really like that site.

i like scheme1gp0.jpg best