- From: Eric A. Meyer <emeyer@sr71.lit.cwru.edu>
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 16:36:46 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
>I think that throughout the test pages, the colours used should be much more >obvious. Agreed, although your value of 'obvious' may vary. >I'm thinking in particular about >http://www.cwru.edu/dms/homes/eam3/css-test/sec13.htm >where the dark green is almost indistinguishable from the black on my >platform (Win95, IE4). > >Maybe some much brighter and obviously different colours, such as yellow, >fuchsia, lime and red would be more appropriate. Well, if ya had an OS with REAL color management... oops, was that out loud? Just kidding. The real reason I went with shades of green is that I was trying, wherever possible, to show conformance in green, and non-conformance in red. (Where this wasn't possible, I went with purple and blue.) I also wanted to alternate shades of green so that there wasn't a question about a given style carrying over from one element to another and thereby obscuring a problem. I tried lime, but it looked really horrible against the background (either light gray or white) and was near-impossible to read. So I went to dark green. Perhaps I should lighten it a bit; I'll look into it, but my concern is that it will blend too closely with the other green I'm using. The other point, which Hakon raised, is that non-(American-)English speakers might not know what lime, fuschia, maroon, and so on, actually mean-- heck, *I* don't even know what they all mean-- whereas they might more readily identify the primary colors such as green and red. -- Eric A. Meyer - eam3@po.cwru.edu - http://www.cwru.edu/home/eam3.html Hypermedia Systems Manager Digital Media Services http://www.cwru.edu/dms/dms.html Case Western Reserve University http://www.cwru.edu/
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