At 09:00 AM 2/25/97 +-100, Holger Zierdt wrote:
I've also been thinking about color, when I set up the new Hesse-pages. In general, it's a good idea, but color is useful only if it enhances legibility of the pages. I doubt the presented scheme is useful for that. The links are blue, if the browser uses standard-colors (in my case of MS Internet Explorer 3.0 and Netscape 3.0 in Windows 95/NT), and you can hardly read the blue on the black background. Human eyes are used to white backgrounds, due to the paper prints.
The links are blue as set in the document, not because they are the colors of your browser. That color value can be varied, in other words.
If we decide to use more colors, whatever which colors, we should take into account that at least PCs and Macs use slightly different color palettes to display the pages, and a different Gamma-value, so colors appear a little bit darker on the PC than on the Mac (in case of graphics).
There's a lot more to it than that, including ambient light, brand of monitor used, peculiarities of the settings and characteristics of each instance of a monitor and if the person is using a color matching system such as KCMS. As a result, it's probably not worth trying to walk down this road...
A color palette that is shared by almost all machines and browsers can be found at: http://www.heise.de/ct/clut.gif
Interesting, but without any indication of how the displayed colors on this page map to RGB values, I fail to see how it helps.
Holger
H. Zierdt Muenchhausenstrasse 38 37085 Goettingen Germany Phone: +49-551-484082 Fax: +49-551-396153 hzierdt@med.uni-goettingen.de hzierdt@metronet.de