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Date:      Tue, 7 Dec 2004 13:40:06 -0500
From:      Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
Cc:        doc-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/docproj current.sgml
Message-ID:  <20041207134006.77677513@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20041207182426.GO513@submonkey.net>
References:  <1102429767.41b5be4722b47@netchild.homeip.net> <20041207175814.1DCD05D04@ptavv.es.net> <20041207182426.GO513@submonkey.net>

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On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:24:26 +0000
Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:58:14AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > Date: Tue,  7 Dec 2004 15:29:27 +0100
> > > From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
> > > Sender: owner-cvs-all@freebsd.org
> > > 
> > > Zitat von Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>:
> > > 
> > > > > Perhaps we should sit down and come up with a valid color scheme
> > > > > which we could all agree on?
> > > >
> > > > I don't mind.  I've started using blue in my own stuff (e.g.
> > > > http://shrike.submonkey.net/~ceri/doc/articles/dns-primer/) which I
> > > > think looks nicer than red, but that's a real bikeshed for now.
> > > 
> > > Blue is a cold color. Depending on what you want to achieve it's
> > > appropriate, or not...
> > > 
> > > Personally I don't think we should use a cold color.
> > 
> > Blue is commonly thought of as "cold", but it is also the color to which
> > the human eye is least responsive. On a white background a reasonably
> > dark blue is pretty readable because to the luminance receptors (rods) on the
> > retina, but it is poor in combination with other colors when there is
> > not much luminance variation. It tends to look very fuzzy.
> 
> Please, can we have this conversation when we have a chance of using the
> results?

I highly agree with Ceri here, everyone is more than welcome to
work on a design and put it up somewhere.  Then we'll all take
a look at them.  But until we have a chance to really review
color schemes, layout, etc.  Lets get some ideas on the table.

Thank you.

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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