Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:06:01 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: which gray is best for print? Message-ID: <20080905200601.GA81339@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20080905170804.GB20329@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <20080903231439.GA98955@thought.org> <20080905170804.GB20329@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 06:08:04PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote:
> 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
Thanks for this. I'll check it out when I'm less crushed! Just
one note to the list (in case anybody else it looking for
attractive/fitting #xxxxxx codes): dark, black-ish blue #000033
is very good and pleasant on the eyes; #333366 even more so.
I'm still open to the bg color. The display white is not true,
paper-white. Anyway, pretty sure the ink+paper publishers have
their own [[ BETTER ]] ideas. I'm looking for what looks good on
the web.
gary
>
>
> Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
>
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