Virtual Verduria's banner has two slightly different shades of green?

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Arsonist101
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Virtual Verduria's banner has two slightly different shades of green?

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I'm going to be completely honest. This is the only reason I made an account here. I stumbled upon this project through the Language Construction Kit.

But I found something most nefarious in my browsing of the site...

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The letters in yellow have a slightly different green than the rest of the picture

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This the more present background green...

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While this slightly brighter green is the background of the yellow letters. They are (in hex) #007000 and #047404 respectively.
To illustrate, I've put them side by side:

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*Shudders* This is gonna replace the two-headed blue owl with antlers in my nightmares.
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Oh god. You’re right. I’ll never be able to unsee this…

EDIT: Upon further investigation, it looks like the banner ‘image’ is in fact created using two images — one for ‘VIRTUAL VERDURIA’, and one for the Verdurian text. The latter has a slightly different background colour to the former, which causes the problem.
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I didn't notice until now, but now that you say it, I see it clearly.
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It's actually the computer equivalent of one of those optical illusions where the same shade of grey looks darker next to white than against black.
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