Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Color survey
Message-ID: <445@becker.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 89 04:30:50 GMT
References: <730@ivucsb.UUCP> <770@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <770@rex.cs.tulane.edu> dennison@rex.UUCP (Theodore Dennison) writes:
|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.
|>
|>But even on a non-interlaced screen, I'm having a hard time finding colors
|>I like to use for text.
|
|I use a DARK grey background, light-ish grey for the border stuff, light blue
|for the next color, and a soft red for the last color. Looks okay, and almost
|no annoying flicker. To stop flicker, just make sure there are little or no
|BRIGHT colors.

	In general, the sensitivity to flicker is inversely
	proportional to luminance - so a neutral-density
	filter is just an expensive contrast control.
	Make sure that the brightness is adjusted such that
	black is truly non-luminous on the screen, making
	the over-all luminance as low as possible.
	Using colours which are closest to red in the spectrum
	are better since at low luminances the eye is
	more sensitive to flicker in blues & greens.
	I use amber shades with the 1080 contrast at
	the normal detent, which produces for my eyes
	an ignorable amount of flicker.

	Now if only C= had released the 1070 (which had a
	reasonable dot pitch), I would have less eyestrain
	from looking at fuzzy characters...

Cheers,
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