What is Digg?Sponsored by HowLifeWorks
How Private Online Shopping Clubs Work view!
howlifeworks.com - How to become a member and get discounts of up to 80% on must-have luxury goods
9 Comments
- Ometoch, on 04/24/2009, -0/+3Nice, good read. That thing about the light green scrubs is nifty
- factsahoy, on 04/24/2009, -0/+3Here's one suggestion: NO MORE INVERSE COLOR SCHEMES. That means don't force your users to squint at black text on a glaring white background. This ridiculous fad started in the '80s with an effort to draw an analogy between the computer screen and a piece of paper. That analogy fails, because paper doesn't EMIT light. Nonetheless, we've been treated to years of three electron guns (and now backlights) going full-blast in our faces.
At least Windows, Linux, and Unix GUIs let you set up a proper color scheme. Poor Mac users are stuck with the same old '80s nonsense to this day. - fubes2000, on 04/27/2009, -0/+2Definitely a good read, gets the idea across without going too densely into color theory.
- stef686, on 04/29/2009, -0/+1Really nice article
- mconstan, on 04/24/2009, -0/+1I would have agreed with you back in the '80s when I was stuck using a CRT monitor running at 60hz in a dark room. In that environment, white on black was enough to cause a splitting headache. With a decent high resolution LCD, capable of displaying images bright enough to allow me to have some ambient light, I much prefer the 'paper like' black on white.
- zip000, on 04/24/2009, -0/+1While I agree with you in theory, the problem as I see it is that until it becomes common, using light text on a dark background is difficult for users.
Whenever you look at a dark site and then go to a light site, you can't see anything for several seconds. Now sure, its actually the light site's problem, but it still disrupts the users flow. I might dismiss that except for the fact that my site is pretty much just a portal to other pages that I don't have control over and almost all of them are very bright. - factsahoy, on 04/28/2009, -0/+0Well, every high-end graphics and compositing app has used a light-text-on-charcoal color scheme since the '90s. Now, FINALLY, this same basic scheme is appearing in some consumer apps like it's a big feature.
So apparently professional colorists, special-effects artists, and mastering engineers think the white background is *****. A quick search should reveal thoroughly researched reasons (having to do with human visual perception) for this color scheme and the rejection of the ***** inverse ones that I'm bitching about. - erostar, on 04/24/2009, -1/+1It doesn't make any sense though. It's barely even a coherent thought.
Besides, I work in a hospital and no one has green scrubs. - gracysingh, on 04/24/2009, -0/+0nice very good
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is