- From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 01:28:08 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On Friday 11 January 2002 03:11, Access Systems wrote: | On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Harry Woodrow wrote: | | I do 99% of my internet work and communications in monochrome. | | fast. fast, fast. | | and it is more contrasty and easier to read. | color is confusing to many people I guess you find grayscale (8-bit gray) display also annoying?.. As about me: I use anti-aliasing to make characters looking better. FreeType (www.freetype.org) project does wonderful things, 255 shades of gray for every renderred glyph... And, adding subpixel decimation (which required digital LCD screen and RGB color) can imprrove it even further! So I can't agree that color is confusing - color makes life better! | | Bob | | > You ask why people would want to use monochrome. | > 1. Economy it may be the only monitor someone has | > 2. Some colour blind people may view a site in monochrome as it can | > help some of them distinguish between the designers bad choices. | > | > | > Harry Woodrow | > | > | > Cut from past mail | > I understand that you may want to use aureal browser when you can't see | > the screen. But if you can see your screen: why, for the heaven's sake, | > we should | > use monochrome? | > IIRC, "color increases readability by 78%" | Cheers, -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/
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