On Sep 7, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Bernt Hansson wrote:
Polytropon skrev:
Anyway, the best reading contrast - black on white -
No. The best contrast is light yellow background with black letters.
I play around with terminal colors occasionally (a great time waster)
but the main colors I care
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 01:19:00 +0200, cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But do also provide a 1-page version with a sensible print medium CSS
(or even a nicely formatted PDF), so that users can create a hard copy
version with a minimun of fuss and clicks.
The last advice is the best one, I think.
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 01:33:55 +0200, cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I really dislike pure white backgrounds on light-emitting
surfaces. When reading from a physical book, white is the best background,
but when reading it from a CRT or LCD, it hurts my eyes very fast up to a
point
Polytropon skrev:
Anyway, the best reading contrast - black on white -
No. The best contrast is light yellow background with black letters.
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On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:22:55 +0200, Bernt Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Polytropon skrev:
Anyway, the best reading contrast - black on white -
No. The best contrast is light yellow background with black letters.
The Solaris/CDE X Terminal, I know. :-)
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From Magdeburg,
So you're saying that the white on my [monster] CRT is not the
same as on a future LCD Display? rats:)
Not only that, but your monster CRT probably doesn't match a smaller
CRT; and an old-ish CRT whose phosphors have aged (and whose focus
may have gotten a bit fuzzy) probably doesn't match a
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:36:45 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So you're saying that the white on my [monster] CRT is not the
same as on a future LCD Display? rats:)
Exactly. And compare the black, too, best way to differentiate
with CRT and LCD side by side with a
On Sep 3, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
This is for any webmaster types: which color gray (in hex,
#xx)
is best for a site that has probably very long articles? I've
googled
around and found various grays such as #696969 or #708090, but I
haven't found anything that really
Hi there,
To prevent boredom, two shades of deep gray or blue-gray would be besy.
I may be wrong, but no one ever read a long block of text because of the
color of the font. A better way to prevent boredom is to write
interesting text!
And do not make the mistake of putting your long
On Friday 05 September 2008 08:36:45 pm Gary Kline wrote:
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:38:59PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:06:01 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm still open to the bg color. The display white is not true,
paper-white. Anyway, pretty
How do you have your digital camera set to color correct for white? Your eyes
the simplest method to check if your monitor reproduces colors exactly is
to display some photo from digital camera and make photo of the screen,
then cut out the image part from photo and display near the first.
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 03:17:25PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
Hi there,
To prevent boredom, two shades of deep gray or blue-gray would be besy.
I may be wrong, but no one ever read a long block of text because of the
color of the font. A better way to prevent boredom is to write
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:38:45AM -0700, Kent wrote:
But the ability of people to read it is an important consideration. I hate
those web pages with dark backgrounds that I have to use the mouse to select
the text so that I can read it. I am a speed reader and basically see words
as
{ After spending hours looking for a used ThinkPad}
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 01:53:46PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:36:45 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So you're saying that the white on my [monster] CRT is not the
same as on a future LCD Display?
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 01:33:55AM +0200, cpghost wrote:
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:38:45AM -0700, Kent wrote:
(...)
IIRC, dyslexics have a much harder time reading when the background is dark.
Kent
That's really interesting! ... But everyone's different:
Personally, I really
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:14:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
This is for any webmaster types: which color gray (in hex, #xx)
is best for a site that has probably very long articles? I've googled
around and found various grays such as #696969 or #708090, but I
haven't found anything that
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 06:08:04PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:14:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
This is for any webmaster types: which color gray (in hex, #xx)
is best for a site that has probably very long articles? I've googled
around and found various
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:06:01 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm still open to the bg color. The display white is not true,
paper-white. Anyway, pretty sure the ink+paper publishers have
their own [[ BETTER ]] ideas. I'm looking for what looks good on
the
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:38:59PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:06:01 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm still open to the bg color. The display white is not true,
paper-white. Anyway, pretty sure the ink+paper publishers have
their own [[ BETTER
On Behalf Of Gary Kline
On Wed September 3 2008 16:26:07 Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:14:42 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Or if there is a color-chooser in ports, that too, altho I haven't
found
anything in ports/x11 or ports/www.
You may check
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:14:42 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or if there is a color-chooser in ports, that too, altho I haven't found
anything in ports/x11 or ports/www.
You may check /usr/ports/x11/xcolorsel, allthough I prefer the
color choosing dialog of Gimp which provides a hex
On Wed September 3 2008 16:26:07 Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:14:42 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or if there is a color-chooser in ports, that too, altho I haven't found
anything in ports/x11 or ports/www.
You may check /usr/ports/x11/xcolorsel, allthough I prefer
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