[boost] Re: [web] Front page.

From: Deane Yang (deane_yang_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-23 15:40:52

You know way more about this than I do.

And if I'm the only one who finds wikipedia's links
easier to read, then obviously my views should be ignored.

How about the line spacing?

Rene Rivera wrote:

> Yes. I think you mean "more contrast". There are other ways to improve 
> contrast without changing the luminance. It's a problem with visual 
> perception that's hard to deal with, and with much research behind it. 
> As an example here's a quick color study comparison of the wiki link 
> color and my current link color...
> 
> http://redshift-software.com/~grafik/boost/color.htm
> 
> The wiki color is on the left, mine on the right. The first three rows 
> are the pure color. The second three are the luminance of the colors 
> only. Both have the text in white and the opposing color. This helps 
> show differences, and more importantly similarities, in the brightness 
> and contrast of the colors. (this is a common way of typeset comparison)
> 
> As you can see the wiki color has slightly more contrast on the white. 
> But it has less contrast when only the luminance is considered. One 
> common cause for this is the color bleeding that happens on monitors. 
> For others the experience will vary, including laptop LCD users which 
> are likely to see either no difference or significant difference between 
> the two depending on how the LCD does a "floor" or "ceiling" on the colors.
> 
>> And I hate to sound like a broken record, but I compare
>> every attempt directly against www.wikipedia.org.
>> The shade of blue used in wikipedia.org (or is it my browser?)
> 
> 
> It's wikipedia... and your graphics card.. and your gamma curve.. and 
> your monitor, LCD, plasma, or projection.
> 
> My suggestion, for you and others, is to download the above page and 
> play with the colors yourself to see how it looks on your display. And 
> tell everyone of your experience :-)
> 
> 
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