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Subject: Re: Color choices

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 22:39:43 12/07/00

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On December 08, 2000 at 01:11:41, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On December 07, 2000 at 23:26:52, Tim Mirabile wrote:
>
>>Here is a list of colors from the so-called "browser safe palette":
>>
>>http://www.icdchess.com/color.html
>>
>>As you can see, a lot of them are unreadable, difficult to distinguish from
>>black in this font, or just look pukey or muddy.
>>
>>If too many people dislike the colors, we can go back to all black, or maybe
>>just find a couple of good colors we can all live with, and not use so many
>>different levels of color.  We probably should avoid the blue and violet link
>>colors for obvious reasons.
>>
>>I may also be able to offer various color options customizable by each user (as
>>well as other viewing and filtering options), by using cookies (gasp!), or
>>possibly by storing settings for each user on the server.  But these ideas would
>>have to wait for a different time of year.
>
>1) Black was OK.
>
>2) The light green sucks.  Anything is better except light anything or flaming
>red.
>
>I think that if we're going to do this by consensus we are doomed, since nobody
>will like the same thing.  I just want to be able to read stuff and not end up
>having to stop reading CCC because I can't see the stuff anymore, and I don't
>want CCC to become an amazing configuration nightmare.
>
>Please get rid of the light green.
>
>bruce

I would agree with that. The problem is that the green is not too different from
the black. The colors on deja.com's news feed are OK, I think, even if it is
black for the main text, brownish/redish green for the second level and red for
the third.



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