Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-08 Thread John Almberg
On Sep 7, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Bernt Hansson wrote: Polytropon skrev: Anyway, the best reading contrast - black on white - No. The best contrast is light yellow background with black letters. I play around with terminal colors occasionally (a great time waster) but the main colors I care ab

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-07 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:22:55 +0200, Bernt Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Polytropon skrev: > > > > Anyway, the best reading contrast - black on white - > > No. The best contrast is light yellow background with black letters. The Solaris/CDE X Terminal, I know. :-) -- Polytropon >From M

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-07 Thread Bernt Hansson
Polytropon skrev: Anyway, the best reading contrast - black on white - No. The best contrast is light yellow background with black letters. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 01:33:55 +0200, cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally, I really dislike pure white backgrounds on light-emitting > surfaces. When reading from a physical book, white is the best background, > but when reading it from a CRT or LCD, it hurts my eyes very fast up to a > po

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 01:19:00 +0200, cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But do also provide a 1-page version with a sensible print medium CSS > (or even a nicely formatted PDF), so that users can create a hard copy > version with a minimun of fuss and clicks. The last advice is the best one, I thi

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 01:33:55AM +0200, cpghost wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:38:45AM -0700, Kent wrote: > > (...) > > > IIRC, dyslexics have a much harder time reading when the background is dark. > > > > Kent > > That's really interesting! ... But everyone's different: > > Personally

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread Gary Kline
{ After spending hours looking for a used ThinkPad} On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 01:53:46PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:36:45 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So you're saying that the "white" on my [monster] CRT is not the > > same as on a future LCD D

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:38:45AM -0700, Kent wrote: > But the ability of people to read it is an important consideration. I hate > those web pages with dark backgrounds that I have to use the mouse to select > the text so that I can read it. I am a speed reader and basically see words > as ima

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 03:17:25PM +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hi there, > > >>> To prevent boredom, two shades of deep gray or blue-gray would be besy. > > > > I may be wrong, but no one ever read a long block of text because of the > > color of the font. A better way to prevent boredom is

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
How do you have your digital camera set to color correct for white? Your eyes the simplest method to check if your monitor reproduces colors exactly is to display some photo from digital camera and make photo of the screen, then cut out the image part from photo and display near the first. sh

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread Kent
On Friday 05 September 2008 08:36:45 pm Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:38:59PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:06:01 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm still open to the bg color. The display white is not true, > > > paper-white. Anyway,

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there, To prevent boredom, two shades of deep gray or blue-gray would be besy. I may be wrong, but no one ever read a long block of text because of the color of the font. A better way to prevent boredom is to write interesting text! And do not make the mistake of putting your long block

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread John Almberg
On Sep 3, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Gary Kline wrote: This is for any webmaster types: which color gray (in hex, "#xx") is best for a site that has probably very long articles? I've googled around and found various grays such as "#696969" or "#708090", but I haven't found anything that reall

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:36:45 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you're saying that the "white" on my [monster] CRT is not the > same as on a future LCD Display? rats:) Exactly. And compare the "black", too, best way to differentiate with CRT and LCD side by side with a

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread perryh
> So you're saying that the "white" on my [monster] CRT is not the > same as on a future LCD Display? rats:) Not only that, but your monster CRT probably doesn't match a smaller CRT; and an old-ish CRT whose phosphors have aged (and whose focus may have gotten a bit fuzzy) probably doesn't match

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:38:59PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:06:01 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm still open to the bg color. The display white is not true, > > paper-white. Anyway, pretty sure the ink+paper publishers have > > their own [[

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-05 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:06:01 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still open to the bg color. The display white is not true, > paper-white. Anyway, pretty sure the ink+paper publishers have > their own [[ BETTER ]] ideas. I'm looking for what looks good on >

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 06:08:04PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:14:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > This is for any webmaster types: which color gray (in hex, "#xx") > > is best for a site that has probably very long articles? I've googled > > around and found v

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:14:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > This is for any webmaster types: which color gray (in hex, "#xx") > is best for a site that has probably very long articles? I've googled > around and found various grays such as "#696969" or "#708090", but I > haven't found anyt

RE: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-04 Thread Bob McConnell
On Behalf Of Gary Kline > On Wed September 3 2008 16:26:07 Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:14:42 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Or if there is a color-chooser in ports, that too, altho I haven't found > > > anything in ports/x11 or ports/www. > > > > You may check /

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed September 3 2008 16:26:07 Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:14:42 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or if there is a color-chooser in ports, that too, altho I haven't found > > anything in ports/x11 or ports/www. > > You may check /usr/ports/x11/xcolorsel, allthough I

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:14:42 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or if there is a color-chooser in ports, that too, altho I haven't found > anything in ports/x11 or ports/www. You may check /usr/ports/x11/xcolorsel, allthough I prefer the color choosing dialog of Gimp which provides a he

which gray is best for print?

2008-09-03 Thread Gary Kline
This is for any webmaster types: which color gray (in hex, "#xx") is best for a site that has probably very long articles? I've googled around and found various grays such as "#696969" or "#708090", but I haven't found anything that really fits what I want. URL, anybody? Or if there is a col