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Composition of text and background colors.

Do you know whether any body carefully studied effect of different
color combinations in html document. I mean, for example, which
combination of text-color and backgroud colr are good? I think that "it
is easy to see and read text" is not sufficient. For example yellow
text one can easy recognise on blue background, however it is too
garish. Is any mathematical relation between colors which are good
combined with each other?

Jul 23 '05 #1
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me
<op*********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Do you know whether any body carefully studied effect of different
color combinations in html document. I mean, for example, which
combination of text-color and backgroud colr are good? I think that "it
is easy to see and read text" is not sufficient. For example yellow
text one can easy recognise on blue background, however it is too
garish. Is any mathematical relation between colors which are good
combined with each other?


Look here:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100...or+readability

Not exactly what you asked for but may also be of use:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp

Try the color picker here:
http://www.hypersolutions.org/rgb.html

Good Luck,
me
Jul 23 '05 #2
In article <11*********************@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups. com>,
op*********@yahoo.com enlightened us with...
Do you know whether any body carefully studied effect of different
color combinations in html document. I mean, for example, which
combination of text-color and backgroud colr are good?


In addition to what "me" posted, consider that some people are red-green
color blind.
Never use green-on-red or red-on-green for any site you want to be
accessible.

[quote src=http://www.hhmi.org/senses/b130.html]
"Some 10 million American men=3Ffully 7 percent of the male population=3Feither
cannot distinguish red from green, or see red and green differently from most
people."
[/quote]

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Jul 24 '05 #3
In article <11*********************@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups. com>,
op*********@yahoo.com enlightened us with...
Do you know whether any body carefully studied effect of different
color combinations in html document. I mean, for example, which
combination of text-color and backgroud colr are good? I think that "it
is easy to see and read text" is not sufficient. For example yellow
text one can easy recognise on blue background, however it is too
garish. Is any mathematical relation between colors which are good
combined with each other?


Oh, hey, look what I found. This is kinda cool. You can check what your pages
look like to colorblind people -- all 3 kinds of colorblindness.

http://colorfilter.wickline.org/

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He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
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Jul 24 '05 #4
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed kaeli
<ti******@NOSPAM.comcast.net> writing in
news:MP************************@nntp.lucent.com:
In article <11*********************@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups. com>,
op*********@yahoo.com enlightened us with...
Do you know whether any body carefully studied effect of different
color combinations in html document. I mean, for example, which
combination of text-color and backgroud colr are good? I think that
"it is easy to see and read text" is not sufficient. For example
yellow text one can easy recognise on blue background, however it is
too garish. Is any mathematical relation between colors which are good
combined with each other?


Oh, hey, look what I found. This is kinda cool. You can check what your
pages look like to colorblind people -- all 3 kinds of colorblindness.

http://colorfilter.wickline.org/


I also found ADesigner from IBM Alphaworks. It's a stand alone off line
checker, checks for low vision/color blindness and WAI.
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/adesigner

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Jul 24 '05 #5
op*********@yahoo.com wrote:
Do you know whether any body carefully studied effect of different
color combinations in html document. I mean, for example, which
combination of text-color and backgroud colr are good? I think that "it
is easy to see and read text" is not sufficient. For example yellow
text one can easy recognise on blue background, however it is too
garish. Is any mathematical relation between colors which are good
combined with each other?


Color contrast and readability (even for people with a color deficiency)
<URL:http://www.juicystudio.com/services/colourcontrast.asp>
<URL:http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckImage.php>
<URL:http://wellstyled.com/tools/>

are a separate issue from color "psychology"
<URL:http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/color3.html>
<URL:http://colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html>

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Jul 24 '05 #6
In article <11*********************@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups. com>, op*********@yahoo.com says...
Do you know whether any body carefully studied effect of different
color combinations in html document. I mean, for example, which
combination of text-color and backgroud colr are good? I think that "it
is easy to see and read text" is not sufficient. For example yellow
text one can easy recognise on blue background, however it is too
garish. Is any mathematical relation between colors which are good
combined with each other?


No, but you can try them out using Visibone's color lab:
http://www.visibone.com/colorlab
Jul 24 '05 #7

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