From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6e35c0620706280850x3111e15aoa780826e242d97ca@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:50:16 -0700 From: "Jack Johnson" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Colors and other fun In-Reply-To: <1182989850.281545.170520@c77g2000hse.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <08d52a5efa996c205c60302e84f5cbcc@coraid.com> <1182989850.281545.170520@c77g2000hse.googlegroups.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 896c7bf4-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 6/28/07, 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