Alan Beagley wrote: > Yes. In Taiwan, for example (and probably in Chinese society in general) > white is for funerals and red is for weddings. But they did still have > Red for the "stop" part of a traffic signal (not that anybody took too > much notice) and Green for "go." > > -=- > Alan > > Gervase Markham wrote: > >> Felix Miata wrote: >> >>> Red is for error messages and danger >> >> >> >> Only in your culture. :-) The associations with a particular colour >> are definitely culture-dependent. That's why if you use Green for Good >> and Red for Bad in a localisable app, you have to make the colours >> localisable too.
Alan, actually, I was aware that in some (many?) Asian cultures, the White .vs Red colo[u]r connotations are reversed, thanks. I guess the point I was making was that the default icon should avoid colors that suggest alarm to a large percentage of their users. Rather, they should use some neutral, warm color combination like, say, a teal gecko for example :_) -- Netscape FAQs: http://www.ufaq.org Netscape 6/7 Tips: http://www.hmetzger.de/net6e.html Netscape 6 FAQ: http://home.adelphia.net/~sremick/ns6faq.html Netscape 7 Help/Tips: http://techaholic.net/ns7.html Web page validation: http://validator.w3.org About Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org
