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Article #7761Re: windows [colors]
From: Isaac Rabinovitch
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 1990 05:50
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 1990 05:50
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In <60041@microsoft.UUCP> jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) writes:
>In article <1990Dec21.182811.3675@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> leol@cat4.cs.wisc.edu (Leo Lim) writes:
>>
>> Hello, windows users!
>>Here is my colors configuration. Take a shot, I bet you'll love it!
>>At least, I like it...... He hehe :-)
>>Just cut this and paste it on your win.ini file.
>>Have fun!!!
>Ouch! Below find a color scheme I designed to try to _lessen_ my
>eye strain :-)
>[colors]
>Background=128 128 128
....
Whats with all that white space? Blues and yellows are easier to
read. And let's make it easy to pick out the active window.
[colors]
Background=160 160 164
AppWorkspace=192 192 192
Window=192 220 192
WindowText=0 0 0
Menu=0 255 255
MenuText=0 0 0
ActiveTitle=255 255 0
InactiveTitle=130 130 130
TitleText=0 0 255
ActiveBorder=255 255 0
InactiveBorder=128 128 128
WindowFrame=0 0 0
Scrollbar=129 129 129
GrayText=100 100 100
HiLight=120 120 120
HiLightText=120 245 245
One of the little things that was hard to get just right was GrayText.
If it doesn't look different from regular text in reverse mode, you
keep trying to hit the greyed-out options in the menus!
I would've preferred light blue (nobody in the real world calls it
"cyan"!) for my document background, but the help manager insists on
trying to complement it (and most background colors!) with light green
for the hyped-text links -- not a readable combination!
--
ergo@netcom.uucp Isaac Rabinovitch
netcom!ergo@apple.com Silicon Valley, CA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!netcom!ergo From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: windows [colors] Message-ID: <19444@netcom.UUCP> Date: 27 Dec 90 05:50:57 GMT References: <1990Dec21.182811.3675@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <60041@microsoft.UUCP> Organization: UESPA Lines: 54