I would like to point the attention of the audience to the notion, which Rob made back in 2003:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Pike) Date: Sep 16 2003, 8:49 am Subject: g++ To: comp.os.plan9 > This is an interesting point. Plan 9 esthetics are really nice. colors, > fonts, and so on just "look good". Who did all that? glad you like it. really glad. most people say something rude about it. i can take no credit for the fonts except for having the good luck to know chuck bigelow and kris holmes well enough to ask them to do a deal with bell labs and let us use their fonts. the postscript fonts used in the manual, which are related to the screen fonts (primarily those used in acme), were the first font designed specifically for unicode. i also rather like the screen fonts, which were also maybe the first. the clean appearance of the screen comes mostly from laziness, but the color scheme is (obviously) deliberate. the intent was to build on an observation by edwardtuftethat the human system likes nature and nature is full of pale colors, so something you're going to look at all day might best serve if it were also in relaxing shades. renee french helped me with the specifics of the color scheme (she's a professional illustrator and my color vision is suspect), once i'd figured out how i wanted it to look. there are still some features of the color system that i put in that i think no one has ever noticed. that's a good thing, in my opinion; the colors should fade away, if you'll pardon the expression. having used other systems with different approaches to color screens, most especially windows XP (extra pukey), i thinktuftewas right. -rob
