Have you ever been in a talk where someone uses 100% green on a slide? The result is usually that no one can see what is shown unless it is a really large green area. Green should be dark and not (0, 255, 0)! The same applies to cyan and yellow. Were the colors like you want them, they would be useless for lines and plot symbols. My guess is that this happens because rod cells which are the most light sensitive ones have very similar wavelength responsiveness to the cone cells (the ones for color vision) which react to green light. Hence, you just don't have as much contrast for green text on a white background as you have for example for blue text. Also, green on black is much easier to read than blue or red on black by the same argument.
Am 21.07.2012 um 19:21 schrieb klo uo: > Hi, > > I read previous mail about "colormaps" which reminded me to a question > I had about MPL colors. > Colors in MPL plots are dark, and pale, and not is some specific color > theme but it's just pale dark. > I thought that usually people make plots brighter (as more attractive ;) ) > > If you can, have a look at this plot I just made, and same image with > same named colors as set by CorelDraw for example: > http://i.imgur.com/y29xD.png > > As you all probably know cyan is not cyan but teal, and green is with > 50% green, and every color is not as expected, except red and blue. > I don't know much about color systems and color space, so thought to > ask why is it like this and if colors can be somehow differently > defined at user end? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
