On 6/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Pike)
Date: Sep 16 2003, 8:49 am
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.
Rob and co. definitely did a stellar job on the color palette, though
you will see some knee-jerk reactions (something I may have been
guilty of in the past).
*If* someone wanted to keep the same strategy but monkey with the
palette, you could use this as a start:
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/06/01/colorful-beauty-in-nature-butterflies/
-Jack
