Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Thu May 22 13:29:44 CDT 2003
True, but just out of curiousity, does MS Access use a transmitted light scheme, or a reflective light scheme? <grin> Unless of course you are talking about printed reports, but then that is not an interface. Drew -----Original Message----- From: Wortz, Charles [mailto:CWortz at tea.state.tx.us] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 11:56 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] Good Interface Examples Drew and Roz, In the additive color scheme, such as transmitted light, black is the absence of all colors and white is the sum of all colors. In the subtractive color scheme, such as in inks and other reflective light schemes, black is the sum of all colors and white is the absence of all colors. So you need to specify which color scheme you are using when you make blanket statements about black and white. <grin> Charles Wortz Software Development Division Texas Education Agency 1701 N. Congress Ave Austin, TX 78701-1494 512-463-9493 CWortz at tea.state.tx.us -----Original Message----- From: Charlotte Foust [mailto:cfoust at infostatsystems.com] Sent: Thursday 2003 May 22 11:39 To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] Good Interface Examples Philosphically, you may be right. Unfortunately, my eyes aren't philosophical about it. Black, and all dark colors for that matter, have visual "weight" that overpowers white. So on a black page with white print, the background overpowers the text. At least, that's the way *my* vision works. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Drew Wutka [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 8:20 AM To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Good Interface Examples That's what I thought (though I think you have your last sentence reversed...books are black on white...). White on Black is letting your eye's see what's there, not what's NOT there. (Since Black is the absence of all color, and white is the presence of all.) Drew -----Original Message----- From: Roz Clarke [mailto:roz.clarke at donnslaw.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 8:46 AM To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Good Interface Examples Psych studies have actually shown that the human eye differentiates light on dark more easily than dark on light and a dark background (making up, as it does, most of the screen) should cause less strain to the eyes, being less bright. However, I think that we find reading white-on-black easiest because we've all been habituated to it from reading books. Roz Roz _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com