frustration about captcha design

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Why is it, that the default captcha image is so but-ugly that it doesn't fit in any web-design? And besides this is very hard to read too?
Normally uglyness is in favour of functionality in designer-land.
But in this captcha case i can't find a reason for the weird choice of colors and fonts.

I'm a little bit frustrated with this thing. As a designer i want my sites to be good functioning. But also good looking!

I have seen stylish blue captcha's passing by in concrete sites. Like the one in the attachment. I can't find any posts on these forums about how to do this. It can't be i'm the only one wanting a better looking (and better reading!) captcha.

Someone out there who can help me get rid of this frustration?

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buurvrouw
 
heikkiy replied on at Permalink Reply
Agreed.

I would prefer to use reCAPTCHA (http://www.google.com/recaptcha).

It has a nice visual style and blends pretty well to any website.

And it also provides accessibility.
jordanlev replied on at Permalink Reply
jordanlev
There's a free addon that lets you use different captcha's for the "guestbook" block (comments):
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/advanced-comments/...

Although it doesn't address the "form" block or registration page. But I believe if you search the forums there may be some solutions for this out there (maybe).
buurvrouw replied on at Permalink Reply
buurvrouw
Yes, i know the advanced comments block, but i need a solution for a form block. I've done searching the forum, but only found a solution to style captcha by diving in some library files. I tried, but i'm not technical enough to get it working.

Still hoping someone knows where those blue captcha's come from.
zoinks replied on at Permalink Reply
agreed, this thing is an abomination.

OOOH OOOH, lookee what I just found:
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/usage/how-can-i-change-ca...