On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:03:07 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
<[email protected]> wrote:

The colours work for me, though it's still too big.

While we are at it, MM/DD/YYYY isn't correct for my locale.  Being a
fellow aussie I'm sure I don't have to tell you what is correct.
Nothing pedantic about that, it's just wrong.  :-P

> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:55:08 +0000 Rui Seabra <[email protected]> said:
> 
> indeed. right. :) seriously - it's zero trouble reading it for me -
> it's not even barely an effort.
> 
> > Riiight.
> > 
> > Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > >On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:42:32 +0000 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
> > ><[email protected]> said:
> > >
> > >> You may be very right from an engineering point of view, but
> > >> from an usability point of view you're quite wrong as the end
> > >> result is quite dark and hard to read:
> > >> 
> > >> http://files.1407.org/shot-dark-clock-on-dark-bg.png
> > >
> > >i'm reading it incredibly easily. in fact not even reading - just
> > >glancing at
> > >it and i can read the time just fine.
> > >
> > >> Rui
> > >> 
> > >> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:55:29 +0900
> > >> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> > On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:40:34 +0000 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
> > >> > <[email protected]> said:
> > >> > 
> > >> > > As of today, some 10 hours ago old tree, the clock is almost
> > >> > > unreadable, being dark blue on dark grey is not good...
> > >> > 
> > >> > the day that it dark blue, is the day the sun is deep purple.
> > >> > this isn;t a subjective thing - it's provable via rgb values
> > >> > (and lets
> > >say
> > >> > you define dark blue as < 0x80 intensity of the maximum
> > >> > element).
> > >> > 
> > >> > > Rui
> > >> > > 
> > >> > > 
> > >> > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:24:19
> > >> > > +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]>
> > >wrote:
> > >> > > 
> > >> > > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:03:52 +0200 "Alex-P. Natsios"
> > >> > > > <[email protected]> said:
> > >> > > > 
> > >> > > > massively worse than whats there. in the same way its also
> > >blurry
> > >> > > > and unreadable too (using that term the same way). in
> > >> > > > addition,
> > >a
> > >> > > > serif font where everything else is sans-serif in the
> > >> > > > theme? that's like walking around in a pink suit with
> > >> > > > green shoes and expecting to be taken seriously in a
> > >> > > > business meeting. :)
> > >> > > > 
> > >> > > > the clock is mimicing a blue version of a "tube clock":
> > >> > > > 
> > >> > > > http://assets.ilounge.com/images/uploads/nixie-tube-clock-1.jpg
> > >> > > > http://gadgets.boingboing.net/filesroot/nixie-tube-clock.jpg
> > >> > > >
> > >http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q146/atbglenn/Nixie%20Clock/MyNixieTubeClock.jpg
> > >> > > > 
> > >> > > > as such it's a pretty good reproducion of such a thing as
> > >> > > > it
> > >was
> > >> > > > done by hand, and its perfectly readable. people claiming
> > >> > > > it's
> > >not
> > >> > > > readable are the kind of people who use that word to
> > >> > > > simply say
> > >"i
> > >> > > > dont like it" - it has nothing to do with readability. you
> > >> > > > can read is just fine without any problems.
> > >> > > > 
> > >> > > > > Greetings,
> > >> > > > > 
> > >> > > > > Many people came crying in #e about the new dark digital
> > >clock
> > >> > > > > and those unreasonal scribbles in the numbers back.
> > >> > > > > 
> > >> > > > > It looks cool and artistic but it is hard to
> > >> > > > > read :( making
> > >it
> > >> > > > > unusable as a module (at least in its digital form).
> > >> > > > > 
> > >> > > > > After a brief discussion about it cipher (Haris
> > >> > > > > Antonatos) decided to give it a try and create an
> > >> > > > > alternative set.
> > >> > > > > 
> > >> > > > > I think of it as pretty neat and matching with the
> > >> > > > > overall
> > >feel
> > >> > > > > please have a look at it as a possibly viable
> > >> > > > > replacement of
> > >the
> > >> > > > > current digital look.
> > >> > > > > 
> > >> > > > > http://postimage.org/gallery/f4doc1s/
> > >> > > > > 
> > >> > > > > --
> > >> > > > > Best Regards,
> > >> > > > > 
> > >> > > > > Alex-P. Natsios
> > >> > > > > (a.k.a Drakevr)
> > >> 
> > >
> > >
> > >-- 
> > >------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am"
> > >--------------
> > >The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    [email protected]
> > 
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