Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:31:18 -0800
Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Jason Catena<jason.catena@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Rob explains the fonts and colors (inspired by Tufte, no less) a bit
> > in this reposted message, and mentions Renee French.
>
> I wonder if Renee would be interested to know this particular color
> palette is an ongoing point of discussion?

I wonder too! The reasoning sounded sensible, but unfortunately I find I can't stand looking at green on the computer screen for long, and living in south-east England I wonder what all that about nature and pale colours was all about. :) The only pale colours on the South Downs are the haze-blued hills of the North Downs in the far distance, and the sky when it's overcast. The middle and foreground are occupied by very strong greens, except for some fields near harvest time which are likely to be other strong colours.

Curiously I like looking at those green hills much better than anything green on my computer screen, even pictures of the same. I can't account for that. I made the active window border in rio a faded lavender while the background is a very very faded lavender. The 2 colours are somewhat reminiscant of the haze-obscured distant hills, but the window border is more reminiscent of one particular crop which flowers blue.

I never got as far as patching the menus and scrollbars to match. They don't quite go but I don't mind, they're not on the screen for long.


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Ethan Grammatikidis

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