From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 6 13:12:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F6E1065670 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:12:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: from mx1.identry.com (on.identry.com [66.111.0.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC8318FC16 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:12:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jalmberg@identry.com) Received: (qmail 50999 invoked by uid 89); 6 Sep 2008 13:12:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.110?) (jalmberg@75.127.142.66) by mx1.identry.com with ESMTPA; 6 Sep 2008 13:12:16 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20080903231439.GA98955@thought.org> References: <20080903231439.GA98955@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <4D0FA23F-22AB-4003-BA69-5465A464168E@identry.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Almberg Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:11:56 -0400 To: Gary Kline X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: which gray is best for print? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:12:18 -0000 > > On Sep 3, 2008, at 7:14 PM, 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. >> Black on white is best for readability. No question about that. See various usability studies by Jakob Nielsen & others. Dark blue on white (very dark blue) is not as good, but better than the other alternatives. No reason to choose any other combination, unless you choose to go with 'style' over usability. But since you specifically asked about long blocks of text, I'd guess usability is at the top of your agenda. No need to use web safe colors anymore, in my opinion. Hardly anyone uses 256 color cards at this stage of the game. Again, see the many studies of hardware usage, or your own web logs. I'm reading this email with black on white, and you probably are too. There's a good reason for that, I think! >> To prevent boredom, two shades of deep gray or blue-gray would be >> besy. I may be wrong, but no one ever read a long block of text because of the color of the font. A better way to prevent boredom is to write interesting text! Just my two cents. -- John > > tia, > > gary > > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public > Service Unix > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Websites for On-line Collectible Dealers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Identry, LLC John Almberg (631) 546-5079 jalmberg@identry.com www.identry.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~