A named color is just a term for an arbitrary range of light frequencies, and different cultures differentiate between different ranges. Especially when you get into more specific named colors like "indigo" or "chartreuse". In fact "indigo" made its way into English from Portuguese and "chartreuse" from French.
I don't speak Japanese, but these could very well be "Japanese colours".
Somehow when we had only 16 colours to work with we didn't have the worst of the designer-brain "grey on marginally different grey" eyestrain factories. High-enough contrast for accessinility was essentially guaranteed. And you could go even more restrictive for laptops with early washed out LCDs and only-shades-of-red plasma screens.
Would white-on-black cause the same problem or fix it? I've been curious about this kinda thing for a while, but never curious enough to research it since it's never affected me.
I recall in the CRT era, yellow-on-blue was considered the most comfortable.
I can recall always typing "COLOR 15, 1, 1:WIDTH 40" to switch from light-grey-on-black to white-on-blue when I went to program my 386, much easier to read.
Not sure how those studies map to the different properties of LCD screens.
I know I read at some point a light gray (which is a shade of white I guess) and a dark gray (which is a shade of black) is ideal for reading for the most people. It shouldn't be the highest contrast pure white on pure black, but something like that is the ideal.
In terms of accessibility I would guess this is pretty solid advice. You can probably switch these with #fff without loosing to much contrast with whatever other colours you have.
Those colours are actually pretty solid, anyone got a link? I always struggle to pick softer background colours for my sites, #000 on #fff is an accessibility issue for eye strain reasons.
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color: 😐
Japanese color: 😲
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term
A named color is just a term for an arbitrary range of light frequencies, and different cultures differentiate between different ranges. Especially when you get into more specific named colors like "indigo" or "chartreuse". In fact "indigo" made its way into English from Portuguese and "chartreuse" from French.
I don't speak Japanese, but these could very well be "Japanese colours".
I'm referring to this meme, which makes fun of japanophiles.
Help I can’t see the colors since I don’t know Japanese
GeordiRejects.jpg : millenial grey
GeordiPoints.jpg : japanese grey!
Purple water does actually look kinda good, imma joink it
edit:
Those arnt dog ears those are bunny ears. Iv been scammed! Should be called poorly named dog game!
Oh I ran out of funding and had to shorten that title. It's not really about dogs, but about Sparkledogs. Those can be anything 😤
What's wrong with #ffffff?
Somehow when we had only 16 colours to work with we didn't have the worst of the designer-brain "grey on marginally different grey" eyestrain factories. High-enough contrast for accessinility was essentially guaranteed. And you could go even more restrictive for laptops with early washed out LCDs and only-shades-of-red plasma screens.
Full-contrast black-on-white is also a common eye strain and/or migraine trigger.
Would white-on-black cause the same problem or fix it? I've been curious about this kinda thing for a while, but never curious enough to research it since it's never affected me.
I'm honestly not sure; I expect it varies from person to person. I certainly find it difficult to look at either way around.
I recall in the CRT era, yellow-on-blue was considered the most comfortable.
I can recall always typing "COLOR 15, 1, 1:WIDTH 40" to switch from light-grey-on-black to white-on-blue when I went to program my 386, much easier to read.
Not sure how those studies map to the different properties of LCD screens.
I know I read at some point a light gray (which is a shade of white I guess) and a dark gray (which is a shade of black) is ideal for reading for the most people. It shouldn't be the highest contrast pure white on pure black, but something like that is the ideal.
*puts fffffc background*
*where text*
紫水晶 (murasakizuishou) is amethyst, not "purple water"
Japan is when foreign and different apparently
In terms of accessibility I would guess this is pretty solid advice. You can probably switch these with #fff without loosing to much contrast with whatever other colours you have.
https://tailwindcss.com/docs/colors
class="bg-grey-100"Those colours are actually pretty solid, anyone got a link? I always struggle to pick softer background colours for my sites, #000 on #fff is an accessibility issue for eye strain reasons.
Link for what? The hex codes are right there. Just type them in.
I'm assuming there's more colours than those in the screenshot
Edit: nvm it's Twitter, they like to just post pictures with no links, that's probably all there is. I hate the modern internet.
The website URL is also in the picture.
Though I cannot find the exact page. There's this Figma by the same company.
Oh that's a URL, thank you, didn't spot that because of the unusual .tokyo TLD 😅
TLD's are getting wild these days.
fr, I forgot the city ones existed https://tld-list.com/tld-categories/cities
That reminds me, if I ever get back into RGB graphical programming, I need to make it support 3 character hex codes, like #fff = white...
Wow, Nihonese grey scales are so much better designed than the Western equivalent.