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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Color survey
Message-ID: <17565@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 01:09:58 GMT
References: <730@ivucsb.UUCP>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <730@ivucsb.UUCP> ivucsb!dan@anise.acc.com (Dan Howell) writes:
>I'd like to know what colors people use in their standard workbench screen.
>Especially if you use interlace on a not-so-flicker-free monitor.

I use a pretty straightforward set of colors.

0: 0xfff          solid white background
1: 0x000          solid black text  (ala Macintosh)
2: 0x06f          blue hilites
3: 0xf00          solid red accents

I use a standard 1080 monitor, with a "jitter-rid" (piece of smoked
plexiglass) as a filter.

Note that this combination would flicker intolerably with the stock
Topaz 8 font, even with the jitter-rid.  The use of Topaz 11 drastically
reduces interlace flicker in text, and I use it almost exclusively.
Unfortunately, a lot of software is incompatible with a non-8-point
font.

It also helps to avoid fluorescent lighting, by the way.

-- 
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP