Patrick, Simplicity is the key to elegance. We use white text on a dark blue background for most everything while the fields are black text on white. We make very sparing use of other colors, none of them intense.
I've mentioned before a one-day course taught by Edward Tufte on the visual presentation of information. He doesn't deal specifically with interface design. Rather, he approaches the subject from a much higher level and gets you to thinking about *all* of the visual aspects of your work. He has self-published three books, "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information," "Envisioning Information," and "Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative." These books are great visual experiences in themselves, and are $40-$50 each, available from Graphics Press, PO Box 430, Cheshire, CT 06410. I believe if you take his course the books are included. >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 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Emmitt Dove Manager, DairyPak Business Systems Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc. 40 Lindeman Drive Trumbull, CT 06611 (203) 673-2231 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
