From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/47453 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Antoine Junod Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: How to decide on colors Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:38:54 +0100 Message-ID: <87y6w6j37l.fsf@zapata.tots-ns.net> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234781688 2957 80.91.229.12 (16 Feb 2009 10:54:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:54:48 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Feb 16 11:56:02 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LZ18q-0002YP-5z for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:56:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24A8B1FA4C; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:54:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29468-02-4; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:54:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F911FC06; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:09:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A258B1FB57 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:09:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23452-02-45 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:08:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-til.mf.surf.net (filter1-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.217]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01CA41FDC6 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:39:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from zapata.tots-ns.net (zapata.tots-ns.net [213.239.193.37]) by filter1-til.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n1G6ctKH023940 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:38:59 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 21232 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Feb 2009 06:38:54 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Cecil Westerhof's message of "Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:28:16 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.239.193.37; country=DE; region=02; city=Gunzenhausen; latitude=49.1000; longitude=10.7500; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=49.1000,10.7500&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 180351107 - 460da7e96100 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.217 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:47453 Archived-At: Hi Cecil, Cecil Westerhof writes: > I am working with a flowchart. I would like to have the background > of the flowchart, different from the background the flowchart is > on. I do not know much about color combinations. (Just enough to > know what I tried were not good choices.) Is there a site with good > pointers about color combinations? The context manual has a good chapter on colors and how to use them: http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-enp.pdf I'm also using the following site to generate color schemes that are not ugly: http://colorschemedesigner.com/ My 2 cents worth, -AJ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________