Are you kidding me, the pushback was REAL on my end too? I swapped from red-green to a purple-orange scheme for a warehouse heatmap and my boss said it looked like a kid's toy at first. Now he admits the contrast is way BETTER for the operators who actually have to stare at it all day.

Wait, so if you were building treads for a 1965 house, wouldn't the original stairs already be built with the old 7.5 inch rise? Like, shouldn't your treads just match whatever was there before?

Honestly I was the same way for a while. I had a Pantone wheel I bought back in college and swore by it for years. But after trying Coolors on a whim for a quick project last month I haven't touched the wheel once. The instant hex codes and color harmony rules built into those free tools are legit game changers. Feels silly now thinking about all the time I spent manually matching colors when I could have just clicked a button.

Dang, five hours in the stall? That's brutal. I had a similar nightmare with a pork shoulder last summer, it sat at 165 for almost four hours and I nearly tossed it out the window. Did you wrap it in butcher paper or foil at any point, or were you just riding it out bare?

Set explicit height on parent items, saved my sanity too.