On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 09:14:06PM -0700, SJS wrote: >begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 04:47:07PM -0700: >[snip] >> For every person who like less contrast with off-white, there will be a >> bunch of people for whom it looks ivory and hate it. > >For awhile, "bisque" was the happening 'neutral' color.
I like a "off black red" background, favoring a dark background because it enhances the use of colors, red cause it's easy on the eyes... of course colors are going to have more contrast on dark vs light background ;) Here's most of my .Xdefaults # see man xterm for table #For example, the string ``33:48,37:48,45-47:48,38:48'' indicates that #the exclamation mark, percent sign, dash, period, slash, and ampersand #characters should be treated the same way as characters and numbers. # 35 $ 36 + 43 ? 63 ~ 126 xterm*CharClass: 33:48,35:48,36-38:48,43-47:48,63-64:48,126:48 # color[0-7] # These specify the colors for the ISO 6429 extension. The # defaults are, respectively, black, red3, green3, yellow3, # DodgerBlue1, magenta3, cyan3, and gray90. The default shades of # color are chosen to allow the colors 8-15 to be used as brighter # versions. xterm*color4: #000099 xterm*color12: #0000FF # color[8-15] # These specify the colors for the ISO 6429 extension if the bold # attribute is also enabled. The default resource values are, # respectively, gray30, red, green, yellow, SteelBlue1, magenta, # cyan, and white. # color[16-255] # These specify the colors for the 256-color extension. The # default resource values are for colors 16 through 231 to make a # 6x6x6 color cube, and colors 232 through 255 to make a # grayscale ramp. xterm*loginShell: true xterm*useInsertMode: true xterm*ColorMode: true xterm*boldColors: true xterm*reverseVideo: true xterm*DynamicColors: true xterm*VeryBoldColors: 12 # xterm*colorAttrMode: true #xterm*colorBDMode: true xterm*colorBLMode: true xterm*colorRVMode: true xterm*colorULMode: true # xterm*background: #140007 xterm*foreground: #c2dccd xterm*highlightColor: #673c5e #xterm*colorBD: #64bedc xterm*colorBD: #f8c7fb xterm*colorBL: #3399af xterm*colorRV: #a55b35 xterm*colorUL: #1ed600 > >> That having been said, a lot of blogs are starting to use "white on >> black ... snazzy!" and I can't *stand* it. I find that I have to use a >> bigger font or the text looks like vibrates. > while I like dark terminals I use light web backgrounds, just to stick with the norm, but many "white" background pages aren't really! they just don't specify background color! My browser uses an off white color for default background, so I see that whenever I get to an Apache index page or a commercial page that doesn't specify background... \.02 // George -- George Georgalis, information system scientist <IXOYE>< -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
