Re: [css-color] vendor named color enhancement

Henrik Andersson composed on 2016-07-22 23:22 (UTC+0200):

> Felix Miata composed, in English:

>> Alex Cohen composed on 2016-07-21 20:16 (UTC):

>>> Curious to know what you think.

>> Pie in the sky? Computer displays are little different from TVs. Once
>> they've left the assembly line, you can't expect any two different
>> examples of the same model to produce the same colors, much less the
>> many disparate models produced over time, and so even less colors that
>> faithfully reproduce colors used in print or real life objects. The
>> best you can hope for from the web is an approximation of your intent.

> Is that before or after users mess things up by abusing the brightness,
> contrast and color settings?

Before or after typical deterioration from normal aging, or accelerated aging 
from web-induced compensatory adjusting settings up, also?

More often than not, manufacturers/vendors are the initial abusers, at least 
with models priced to sell in volume. If nothing has changed in recent years, 
they're set too high, often at 90% or above, not unusually at 100%, in order 
that situated on shelves in brightly lit retail stores they don't stand out 
worse than their neighbors, and so potential buyers don't assume them defective.

(What else explains the abusive(?)/naive(?) web design community, instead of 
maximizing legibility, using merely "passing" contrast ratio muted colors and 
grays, with sizes an arbitrary fraction of optimal, where in print would be 
used bold colors, bright whites and black, in actual physical sizes expected 
to be adequate for the vast majority of intended targets?)
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