cvs commit: www/en/docproj current.sgml

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Tue Dec 7 10:24:41 PST 2004


On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:58:14AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Tue,  7 Dec 2004 15:29:27 +0100
> > From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at Leidinger.net>
> > Sender: owner-cvs-all at freebsd.org
> > 
> > Zitat von Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>:
> > 
> > > > Perhaps we should sit down and come up with a valid color scheme
> > > > which we could all agree on?
> > >
> > > I don't mind.  I've started using blue in my own stuff (e.g.
> > > http://shrike.submonkey.net/~ceri/doc/articles/dns-primer/) which I
> > > think looks nicer than red, but that's a real bikeshed for now.
> > 
> > Blue is a cold color. Depending on what you want to achieve it's
> > appropriate, or not...
> > 
> > Personally I don't think we should use a cold color.
> 
> Blue is commonly thought of as "cold", but it is also the color to which
> the human eye is least responsive. On a white background a reasonably
> dark blue is pretty readable because to the luminance receptors (rods) on the
> retina, but it is poor in combination with other colors when there is
> not much luminance variation. It tends to look very fuzzy.

Please, can we have this conversation when we have a chance of using the
results?

Ceri
-- 
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)
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