Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:16:28 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: Peter McGarvey <Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk>, Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, k4n@hotmail.com, roelof@nisser.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD webdesign Message-ID: <37C2EF8C.6AB910E0@3-cities.com> References: <199908241123.HAA59303@lakes.dignus.com> <NDBBJLAJELEHNLGABIJNKEJFCGAA.Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk> <19990824101738.B2875@athena.tera.com>
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Gary Kline wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 04:04:05PM +0100, Peter McGarvey wrote: > > Web styles/colour schemes are something I feel strongly about. > > > > I'm dyslexic. A bad colour scheme make my life hell. > > > > Personally I find Black on White difficult to read. When I'm trying > > to read along a line my eyes sort of "fall off". To get around this I > > have to peer at the sceen intently and usually end up getting a headache. > > > > Black on Light Grey is much nicer. > > > > Blue on Black is 100% impossible to read. > > > > Bigger bolder fonts help. > > > > However, instead of arguing the toss about personal preferance in colour, > > why not investigate a method of allowing users to overide colours and font > > styles. Much more user friendly. > > > > > > Hm, very interesting. This (black on light grey) may be > why so many commercial apps use this scheme. > > I prefer off-white for the bg and black (bold) fonts, but > this may not work for everyone, obviously. Do you know > how light the grey can be before you find it hard to read? > > I've played around with black on grey85 and it's fairly > reasonable. I've also experiments with bright > green|orange|blue typefaces on black... uhh, no. I have a tendancy to like bright white on dark blue but it depends on the font. When the font is terrible, I go for black on white. I can read it down to about 4 point type on a 19" monitor. Combinations of dark red or green on black kills me. The fact that these phosphour's are every third one, probably has something to do with it, i.e., a real lack of definition. I can read it if I jump the monitor back to 640 x 480 from 1152 x 854 or 1600 x 1280 but then I am running *Window* because I can only have one window on the screen at a time. > > Has anybody on the list found any websites with presentation > information? The only one I know of is http://webknowhow.net/dir/Design/Miscellaneous/. There site has much more. It is mostly links to somewhere else. Helen Triantafillou has a site at http://users.hol.gr/~andreas/hexcolor.htm that lists many combinations of colors and their hex values. Kent > > gary > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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