# Orange Is The New Red **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [February 16, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/orange-is-the-new-red/6356 "2020-02-16T04:53:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![zedmango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c67d28/32.png) [@zedmango](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zedmango)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/orange-is-the-new-red/6356/2 "2020-02-17T05:45:58Z")
What we really need is color-ratcheting. > [@Feature Request: Color-ratchet](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/feature-request-color-ratchet/4851): > > @dreev’s objection to the safety buffer idea, which I agree with, was: But several other users have noted it’s really the colors that matter: So I’m advocating for @Tarn’s suggestion here (but without the U in color please us wink ), because… Why not both? Let’s have a color-ratchet setting that would make the motivating colors appear earlier. That way, if you’ve saved a few days of buffer and want to keep the buffer instead of retro-ratcheting, you could color-ratchet so that ora… With color-ratcheting, you could preserve the psychological significance of red while still giving yourself extra days of buffer. It would let you set the colors so that everything less than X days is red, letting you associate the red line with whatever amount of buffer you wanted. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/orange-is-the-new-red/6356)._