From: "Jack Johnson" <knapjack@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Colors and other fun
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:50:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e35c0620706280850x3111e15aoa780826e242d97ca@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1182989850.281545.170520@c77g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
On 6/28/07, pavlovetsky@gmail.com <pavlovetsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: r...@mightycheese.com (Rob Pike)
> Date: Sep 16 2003, 8:49 am
>
> the clean appearance of the screen comes mostly from laziness, but the
> color scheme is (obviously) deliberate. the intent was to build on an
> observation by edwardtuftethat the human system likes nature and
> nature
> is full of pale colors, so something you're going to look at all day
> might best
> serve if it were also in relaxing shades. renee french helped me with
> the
> specifics of the color scheme (she's a professional illustrator and my
> color
> vision is suspect), once i'd figured out how i wanted it to look.
> there are
> still some features of the color system that i put in that i think no
> one has
> ever noticed. that's a good thing, in my opinion; the colors should
> fade
> away, if you'll pardon the expression.
Rob and co. definitely did a stellar job on the color palette, though
you will see some knee-jerk reactions (something I may have been
guilty of in the past).
*If* someone wanted to keep the same strategy but monkey with the
palette, you could use this as a start:
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/06/01/colorful-beauty-in-nature-butterflies/
-Jack
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-28 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-27 18:59 [9fans] " Russ Cox
2007-06-27 19:13 ` Tim Wiess
2007-06-27 21:25 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-06-27 15:41 ` john
2007-06-27 21:56 ` erik quanstrom
2007-06-27 16:18 ` john
2007-06-27 22:06 ` Kris Maglione
2007-06-28 8:52 ` [9fans] " pavlovetsky
2007-06-28 13:20 ` Markus Sonderegger
2007-06-28 19:02 ` Markus Sonderegger
2007-06-28 19:09 ` Markus Sonderegger
2007-06-28 15:50 ` Jack Johnson [this message]
2007-06-29 3:25 ` john
2007-06-29 13:09 ` Jack Johnson
2007-06-27 21:48 ` [9fans] " Markus Sonderegger
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