[thelist] Colour survey

Mike Migurski mike at cloudfactory.org
Wed May 10 22:00:15 2000


You may be protonomalous - a weakness in the color sensitive cones in the
retinas. Get tested (Ask for the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 test) it'll do you
a world of good if you're a designer.

-mike.

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Walker, Matthew wrote:

> Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 12:11:34 +1200
> From: "Walker, Matthew" <Matthew.Walker@cdc.org.nz>
> Reply-To: thelist@lists.evolt.org
> To: "'thelist@lists.evolt.org'" <thelist@lists.evolt.org>
> Subject: [thelist] Colour survey
> 
> Hey, here's something weird. I recently constructed a CF site (I think I had
> it critiqued on this list) called 
> 
> http://akaroa.com/
> 
> I thought the home page was a moderately tasteful shade of brown.
> *Everybody* else I've asked tells me it's green. My mother (who likes to
> pick faults) insisted I was colour-blind just like my father, only he said
> it was green too. Trouble is the colour is #999966 -- equal parts red and
> green. So it *should* be brown -- a dirty shade of yellow. And that's what
> it looks like to me. 
> 
> So tell me, green or brown? You may want to respond offlist and I can post
> the results back.
> 
> <tip>The tabular data control is an interesting way of presenting simple
> sets of data from a comma-delimited text file. It offers sorting and
> filtering *on the client side* and it's a lot of fun to play with. It only
> works on IE, but if you're doing intranet work then it's worth checking out.
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/database/tdc/overview.asp </tip>
> 
> Regards,
> Matthew Walker
> mailto:matthew.walker@cdc.org.nz
> Canterbury Development Corporation
> Christchurch, New Zealand
> Tel +64-3-379 5575
> 
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