My personal observations are as follows.
Bear in mind that this is strictly in the category of
"beauty is in the eye of the beholder".
The more colours an app has the more garish it appears.
It's like every different colour is saying, "LOOK AT ME!"
The attraction tends to be towards the light rather than dark,
so I have:
1. a coloured border (usually dark, to direct the attention towards the centre)
round my forms for module colour coding,
2. the default dark gray for the background to fields and text,
3. data entry fields black on white,
4. looked up values as black on light gray
(to distinguish them from data entry fields)
5. _very_ sparing use of colour to highlight specific fields
(probably not on one form in 20-50 out of nearly 800)
At 14:37 06/03/02 -0900, you wrote:
>Pat:
>Someone here said something to the effect that the gray that is the
>default on forms with black text is the most universally acceptable,
>because of color blindness etc. I have been using that. For occasional
>highlights I have a very light blue, and a very pale yellow that I use
>(custom colors).
>
>But, I do not do commercial apps where more snappy colors may be better. I
>am interested in this thread. I would like to use color more.
>
>Jim Blackburn
>Kodiak
>
>Patrick Murphy wrote:
> >
> > Achieving the perfect looking form for my users is a never ending goal of
> > mine. Whenever I'm at the doctor's office or retail firm, I look at their
> > point of sale screens for ideas. Has anyone come up with what they
> think is
> > the perfect blend of colors and shades for the background, text, column and
> > variable fields? Does anyone have a combination that really sings
> > "pefection"?
> >
> > Pat Murphy
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