In 1996, when imagining how tipjar was going to fit in to the emerging information superdriveway, while very pleased to be working my first salaried job, I was playing with HTML colors towards determining what the best default color would be for the tipjar give form.

The tipjar give form was envisioned as a moment in someone's experience that was not altogether pleasant, but which would pass quickly and painlessly as possible. I selected the garish bright green which you see as the background of this page. here's a screenful of it.

At some point, H&R Block tax services selected my green for their logo. How validating.