User blog comment:UberTri125/Icon Color Texts/@comment-3325853-20110426170011

I think this is a fine idea for just people who want to customize them on their user pages, which is what Uber is doing to my knowledge.

I think this is a TERRIBLE idea if we're going to start coloring the links on different pages. Links are certain colors for a reason, because everyone understand those colors as links (or visited links). I don't see any reason to change that and just cause confusion. Also this template specifies the color in the template, so we'd start having wild inconsistencies across pages. Some page would have all the icon texts be blue...the next page would have them all be red....the next would have some blue some red some yellow... It'd just be a mess. As a "make your own User page have pretty colors that you want", sure. As a general use in the mainspace pages, I'm a very strong negative.