which gray is best for print?

[Gary Kline]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 06:08:04PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:14:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > This is for any webmaster types:  which color gray (in hex, "#xxxxxx")
> > is best for a site that has probably very long articles?  I've googled
> > around and found various grays such as "#696969" or "#708090", but I
> > haven't found anything that really fits what I want.  URL, anybody?
> > Or if there is a color-chooser in ports, that too, altho I haven't found
> > anything in ports/x11 or ports/www.
> > 
> > To prevent boredom, two shades of deep gray or blue-gray would be besy.
> > 
> > tia,
> > 
> > gary
> 
> I can't tell you which grey is most suitable but I can tell you how I
> go about choosing a colour.
> 
> Install: x11/rgb
> 
> Then:
> 
> $ showrgb | less
> 
> will give you the names of the 256 websafe colours and their rgb
> values.
> 
> I usually check out the colours by:
> 
> $ xterm -bg DarkSalmon
> 
> etc.
> 
> Alternatively, you can use css and set an html pages bg properties:
> 
> <style type="text/css">
> body{
>         background-color: rgb(233,150,122);
> }
> </style>
> 
> & view it in your browser.
> 
> -- 
> 
>  Frank 


	Thanks for this.  I'll check it out when I'm less crushed!  Just
	one note to the list (in case anybody else it looking for
	attractive/fitting #xxxxxx codes): dark, black-ish blue #000033
	is very good and pleasant on the eyes; #333366 even more so.

	I'm still open to the bg color.  The display white is not true,
	paper-white.  Anyway, pretty sure the ink+paper publishers have
	their own [[ BETTER ]] ideas.  I'm looking for what looks good on
	the web.

	gary


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