Re: syntax highlighting, emacs ([PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2))

Ken Moffat
2007-10-08T01:00:30Z

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:11:21AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> Actually, blue is perceived as one of the darkest colors by the human
> eye. There is a reason that the RGB -> grayscale transformation uses
> the following weighting: r=76 g=154 b=26.

But, not every video card reproduces blue in the same way, let
alone every monitor - somewhere I've got an old CRT monitor where
blue text was mostly unreadable (_too_dark_). For photo-editing,
I now use xgamma to get adequately-consistent results on whichever of
4 machines I'm using (one LCD monitor, with KVM switch) - the
settings for the individual machines are very different.

And, of course, people have different colour vision (and unless we
are labelled as colour-blind, we each regard our colour vision as
"normal"). So, what is perfectly acceptable for you on specific
hardware may be totally unusable for someone else.

Ken
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