Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 18:08:04 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: which gray is best for print? Message-ID: <20080905170804.GB20329@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080903231439.GA98955@thought.org> References: <20080903231439.GA98955@thought.org>
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:14:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> This is for any webmaster types: which color gray (in hex, "#xxxxxx")
> is best for a site that has probably very long articles? I've googled
> around and found various grays such as "#696969" or "#708090", but I
> haven't found anything that really fits what I want. URL, anybody?
> Or if there is a color-chooser in ports, that too, altho I haven't found
> anything in ports/x11 or ports/www.
>
> To prevent boredom, two shades of deep gray or blue-gray would be besy.
>
> tia,
>
> gary
I can't tell you which grey is most suitable but I can tell you how I
go about choosing a colour.
Install: x11/rgb
Then:
$ showrgb | less
will give you the names of the 256 websafe colours and their rgb
values.
I usually check out the colours by:
$ xterm -bg DarkSalmon
etc.
Alternatively, you can use css and set an html pages bg properties:
<style type="text/css">
body{
background-color: rgb(233,150,122);
}
</style>
& view it in your browser.
--
Frank
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