On 4/13/07, Troy James Sobotka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Vincent Weber wrote: > >> > First of all It's all brown/orange/red. These colours are not really > >> > pleasant/relaxing for you eyes, especially red. > > First on a specifically research based approach, this is wrong. > > Colours are _culturally_ and _temporally_ rooted in meaning. Look to > the colours of traditional wedding wear in Japan or different parts of > tribal Africa for examples of cultural meaning. Look to the tonal > differences between the 60s and 80s pop culture art for temporal examples. > (Sorry, the previous mail went to the wrong place)
While I agree with you that the meaning of a color is culture dependent, but the question is how do you apply this principle in a cross-cultural context. After all, computer use cannot be reduced to a single cultural location but it is global. What is the culture of the global world? Not brown that's for sure (the global is a western phenomena with all the cultural connotations). So Alvaro has a point here. During the years, I installed ubuntu for many computers, (mostly for teenagers, the children of my friends) and so far, in each case, I was requested to change Ubuntu's default color scheme. I still have to meet with the one who wants to keep it. Color preference is deeply rooted in the sub-conscious of the individual mental life, like language, therefore, every radical attempt to change that reduced to failure. Jmak -- http://jozmak.blogspot.com/ http://jozmak.googlepages.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
