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Website Color Scheme
I changed (back) to my favorite colorscheme: corn yellow on deep stone red,
a color scheme I discovered working with an optician and a (print) graphics
designer, working in England, in the early days of Windows GUIs, in 1989.
At the time I had just finished up a few weeks' crunch time and had worked
too much, staring at two monitors (the good old days of a monitor and a
serial monitor to debug the Windows kernel). Working on monitors inhibits
the eyeblink reflex, which caused my eyes and the skin around them to dry
out and get irritated. The Saturday after the crunch time I woke up with
my eyes swollen shut, due to infections of the skin, caused by fine cracks
in the dry skin. After that got healed with massive doses of broadspectrum
antibiotics, I looked into making for a beter screen setup.
I worked with an optician, and the print graphics designer that
was assigned to our team for the Graphical User Interface design work to
define a color scheme that would help with this.
It turned out there were two main considerations:
- maximizing contrast between text and background
, and
- minimizing total light intake of my eyes.
Maximizing contrast between text and background was easy, but it turned
out that there were some interesting options in minimizing the total light
intake: : inverting the normal GUI color scheme to put light text on a dark background
took care of it. Increasing the contrast became interesting, as
white text on black gave trouble, as did other colors.
It turned out that eye is better able to see red than any other color, and
red as a color has lower energy than any other (it is at the bottom end
of the visible light spectrum).
We finally settled on a dark red (deep stone red is the proper color name, I believe),
background with the, graphically best contrast color, of dark corn yellow.
For the web, these colors translate to about #ffcc00 and #660000.
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I attended a bullwhip handling seminar given by Gery L. Deer in Ann Arbor, organised by a friend of mine who had seen Gery perform at a local Science Fiction convention. Since I have practiced diligently and acquired two more whips: it is boatloads of fun!
I have been running my new game settings, based on my serial campaign concept,
as well as have complete websites: ShadowWorld Mainline, ShadowWorld WWII and Grand Design.
I am working on a new current day ShadowWorld setting, with a new, entirely different cosmology.
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Underworld, though laying claim to prior use,
was renamed to ShadowWorld in the summer of 2002,
to avoid confusion with earlier published role playing games with same or similar names.
It was moved to its own website.
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