Re: Colours issue...

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 Harry:

 Thanks for the pointers below. I like you green as a cursor
 bar in the menus area. Quite nice.

 In return, if I might make a suggestion, have a look at the
 font Gentium as a screen font. You can obtain it on the net,
 and its free. It also make a nice printer font.

 M.

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On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Harry Binswanger wrote:

> Maben wrote:
>
> >  In the best British accent I can muster, "By Jove, you've got
> >  it Harry. And it changes the colour table as well." Back to
> >  my normal Montreal English accent, "Thank you, Harry." Now,
> >  I have the problem of selecting the best combination of colour
> >  options. Hmmm. ;-)
>
> So the rain in Spain *does* stay mainly on the plain!
>
> Incidentally, in playing with the color selector that comes up, I find that
> you can often get more fine-tuning by entering numbers (on the right)
> rather than moving sliding things around. And note the incredible impact of
> the far right slider, which interacts with all the numbers. By the way, try
> out my teal green for the background of the Command Line/Prompt Line area:
> Red: 11
> Green: 106
> Blue: 95
>
> I'm now trying out a values that are a skoch brighter: 0, 117, 102.
>
> It's interesting that colors look somewhat different in their context in Xy
> vs. how they look in the Color dialogue box Tame puts up.
>
>
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx
>