Compared to the good old "real cyclechat" skin, this is positively anaemic. The orange is a pale shade of clementine compared with the old sunburnt Seville.
I experimented with using darker/deeper colours but they just seemed to pull your eyes away from the content.
Having said that I hadn't reckoned for how easy it would be to customise the layout so I may, later (much), if I get some free time, produce an alternative deeper coloured layout to see what we can come up with. Bottom of the to-do list at the moment though ...