Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:44:23 +0100 "Steve Simon" wrote: > > ...a colour space diagram showing the range a monitor... > > More info than you wanted here: > http://www.poynton.com/Poynton-color.html Cheers! -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be

Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-13 Thread Steve Simon
> ...a colour space diagram showing the range a monitor... More info than you wanted here: http://www.poynton.com/Poynton-color.html -Steve

Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:14:33 GMT Paul Donnelly wrote: > eeke...@fastmail.fm (Ethan Grammatikidis) writes: > > > The only pale colours on the South Downs are the haze-blued hills of > > the North Downs in the far distance, and the sky when it's > > overcast. The middle and foreground are occupied

Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-13 Thread Paul Donnelly
eeke...@fastmail.fm (Ethan Grammatikidis) writes: > The only pale colours on the South Downs are the haze-blued hills of > the North Downs in the far distance, and the sky when it's > overcast. The middle and foreground are occupied by very strong > greens, except for some fields near harvest time

Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-10 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:31:18 -0800 Jack Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Jason Catena wrote: > > Rob explains the fonts and colors (inspired by Tufte, no less) a bit > > in this reposted message, and mentions Renee French. > > I wonder if Renee would be interested to know this

Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-10 Thread tlaronde
Thanks for the pointer(s)! The extra information, compared to what I previously read, is Edward Tufte. I do think Plan 9 colors choices are right. In french, "travail" (work) is derived from a word meaning pain, torture. That's perhaps why a "professional" computer interface is one that gives y

Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-10 Thread Jack Johnson
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Jason Catena wrote: > Rob explains the fonts and colors (inspired by Tufte, no less) a bit > in this reposted message, and mentions Renee French. I wonder if Renee would be interested to know this particular color palette is an ongoing point of discussion? -Jack

Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-10 Thread Martin Neubauer
> I seem to recall reading a paper by Rob Pike about discussions, I think > with Ren�e French, about this visual aspect. But I don't manage to find > back which one it was, and if there are other ones about this ergonomy. > > Has somebody hints? Maybe you mean this? http://9fans.net/archive/2003/0

Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-10 Thread Jason Catena
Rob explains the fonts and colors (inspired by Tufte, no less) a bit in this reposted message, and mentions Renee French. http://www.mail-archive.com/9f...@cse.psu.edu/msg13035.html Jason Catena

[9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-10 Thread tlaronde
Hello, Even if the plan 9 graphical interface doesn't look like the other ones, as a matter of fact it happens that I'm far less eyes-tired by the plan 9 one than with others---indeed, if I like more the console on Unix like system it's because glyphes are bigger and the black background less aggr