On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 14:02 -0500, Scott Lawrence wrote: > > I don't know much about color theory, but we could probably define 12 > > dark-ish colors easily (dark red, dark orangish red, dark reddish > > orange, dark orange, etc.), and allowing variation in saturation could > > probably generate 12 more. > > I think that the challenge is finding colors that are distinguishable > and which also provide good contrast with the several colors used for > messages. If we can find a larger set, I'm sure it would be trivial for > Thomas to add them.
While I still think that someone who really understands color perception could arrange for many colors that are distinguishable, it would probably be simpler and more understandable to arrange color codes as people used to do with wiring: the insulation of a wire was of a particular color, but there was a thin stripe of a different color on it. So you had "blue" and "red", but also "blue with a red tracer". So maybe we could do this with colored backgrounds, say a blue background with a red candy-cane stripe in it. Assuming that we assemble a set of 7 colors (dark red, dark orange, etc., through dark violet, plus dark gray), and can use each color as a tracer in all the others, that allows 49 distinct combinations, and as a bonus, all of them can be named easily. If the colors are suitably dark, they can be distinguished from the 7 arrow colors. Dale _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
