On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 09:19:41 -0600, John McKown wrote: >On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Tony's Basement Computer wrote: >> >> "black on white is good, blue on gray is bad" >> And complementary colors of equal brightness are utterly jarring. Avoid the combination. In fact, design for a monochromatic viewer. It's clear in my memory when I used monochrome terminals.
>Total agreement. Luckily for me, Chrome allows me to override the CSS with >a better style, with more contrast. Some numb skull had cyan on blue. As >bad as one Windows user, many years ago, who said she had an unreadable >"blue screen". And indeed she did. She actually changed the screen colors >to blue characters on blue background. > And I tried saturated red (ff,00,00) warning text on a white background. I decided that was grotesque and dropped back to about (c0,00,00). -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
