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On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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> On Monday 31 March 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > I've always used Linux Colours, on crt and on lcd displays. Contrast |
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> > works fine for me. What display device do you use? |
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> > What do you mean about contrast? |
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> > My gentoo is using a Westinghouse flat screen with mid-range |
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> > brightness and contrast. |
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> My question could have been clearer, I meant that the relative contrast |
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> between fore and background colours using Linux Colours is OK so I can |
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> see grey on black fine, and the difference between a colour and the |
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> same one bold is also obvious. |
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> I've used some cheaper crts that were just gross, and in the past found |
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> that the quality of LCDs were highly variable and mostly unrelated to |
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> price (this seems to have settled now though). |
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One of the things I don't like about black background is that on all |
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monitors |
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the background seems to "crowd" the glyphs -- the markings seems more |
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slender than when the colors are reversed. With small fonts (I like high |
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resolution settings for other reasons), this makes the lettering hard to |
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read. |
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> You seem to know what to do in most cases and how to achieve it, so I |
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> don't know if my favourite colour schemes will help you much. However, |
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> have you considered an eye test for colour sensitivity? A large number |
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> of males are under-sensitive to certain colours and it's apparently |
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> hard for the person to detect it in themselves. |
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I'm glad it seems so, since I teach computer science at the university |
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level. :o) |
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But I was hoping to get samples and suggestions of how others have dealt |
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with this. I've been muttering under my breath about this for a few years |
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now and I thought it likely that others may have taken action. |
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As for vision: I have such an exam yearly. I always see the numerals in |
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samples, and nobody's ever mentioned color insensitivity. Nevertheless, it's |
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possible it's vision-related since it works this way for me on all monitors, |
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in my work I see a lot of monitors. |
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++ kevin |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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