Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:49:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: kstewart@3-cities.com (Kent Stewart) Cc: kline@tera.com, Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk, rivers@dignus.com, k4n@hotmail.com, roelof@nisser.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD webdesign Message-ID: <199908242049.NAA05311@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <37C2EF8C.6AB910E0@3-cities.com> from Kent Stewart at "Aug 24, 99 12:16:28 pm"
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According to Kent Stewart: > > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > I've played around with black on grey85 and it's fairly > > reasonable. I've also experiments with bright > > green|orange|blue typefaces on black... uhh, no. > > I have a tendancy to like bright white on dark blue but it depends on > the font. When the font is terrible, I go for black on white. I can > read it down to about 4 point type on a 19" monitor. Combinations of > dark red or green on black kills me. The fact that these phosphour's > are every third one, probably has something to do with it, i.e., a > real lack of definition. I can read it if I jump the monitor back to > 640 x 480 from 1152 x 854 or 1600 x 1280 but then I am running > *Window* because I can only have one window on the screen at a time. > I've come across some of the "micro-print" sites. On my 17" 1280x1024 tube at home, it's painful to read, whatever color the fg/bg. > > > > Has anybody on the list found any websites with presentation > > information? > > The only one I know of is > http://webknowhow.net/dir/Design/Miscellaneous/. There site has much > more. It is mostly links to somewhere else. Helen Triantafillou has a > site at http://users.hol.gr/~andreas/hexcolor.htm that lists many > combinations of colors and their hex values. > Noted and saved away, thanks much. I asked one of our GUI wizards and he suggested doing what Netscape and other commercial apps did. So I'm following that way pretty much. I did search around for awhile; didn't find your design sites, tho. Black on grey may be the best compromise, but it leaves me cold! gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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