At least one other site now has a customised top bar: the one at [Science Fiction and Fantasy](http://scifi.stackexchange.com/) has been made slightly translucent in order to make it fit better with their site. Obviously translucency wouldn't be appropriate in our case, but a similarly subtle change in colour scheme would make it a lot less visually jarring.

Since there is now precedent for customising the top bar, I hope the request to do so on our site will be genuinely considered.