On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Felix Patzelt wrote: > Have you ever been in a talk where someone uses 100% green on a slide? The > result is usually that no one can see what is shown unless it is a really > large green area.
No, but I would have expected in that case appropriate bg. I've seen a talk by MPL developer that he dislikes systems that help too much, like I want it to do what I tell it to do ;) Like cyan is not teal, and yellow is not 75% yellow etc. I really would have expected that MPL uses some nifty CMYK scheme (as in CorelDraw approxiamtion i.e.) instead the one usually defined as in html color names: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp which are commonly used (gnuplot i.e.), but MPL doesn't even use that Can this colors be defined (i.e. in matplotlibrc) w/o changing MPL source? > My guess is that this happens because rod cells which are the most light > sensitive ones have very similar wavelength responsiveness to the cone cells > (the ones for color vision) which react to green light. Hence, you just don't > have as much contrast for green text on a white background as you have for > example for blue text. Also, green on black is much easier to read than blue > or red on black by the same argument. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
