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Subject: Re: Which are good square colours in GUI of a chess program?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 08:41:41 01/20/00

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On January 20, 2000 at 09:17:16, Jari Huikari wrote:

>I have written my own GUI for Nero. The background colour is black
>and chessboard's square colours have some alternatives. E.g. brown/yellow
>and darkgray/lightgray. Which other colours would be nice?
>
>
>The latest (Jan. 18. 2000) Nero can be downloaded from
>http://www.math.jyu.fi/~huikari/NERO5.ZIP
>
>I hope to be able to start writing a WB-version soon. (I could write also
>Auto232 version if there are people interested to have such.)
>
>
>					Jari

I like the colors that you have with dark grey/light grey and black backround, I
think that this has the most serious look to it, it's the same color setup that
I put in the Dos version of Comet.

Some of your other color options looked good too, but I prefer very basic look
and I find colors to be distracting if they don't balance well to my eye, and
balance of colors is _very_ subjective.

I have trouble reading the red text at the top of Nero, if that was a light grey
type of color it would be easier to see (for me).

I notice that over the months, Nero changes slightly, and yet it always seems to
retain the name Nero5, is it really changing or am I imagining that?  And is "5"
really part of the name and _not_ a revision number?  Or is it that Nero5 is
really referring to the actual engine behind the gui, and has nothing to do with
the gui at all?  Just curious.

Pete



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