On Thursday 22 Sep 2011 18:29:07 Nelson Marques wrote:
2011/9/22 Will Stephenson <wstephenson@suse.de>:
On Thursday 22 Sep 2011 12:18:31 Helen South wrote:
I love the QR code, very funky.... tho that green looks vile on my monitor... might need calibrating (must make an Oyranos disk)
As Nuno pointed out to me, green is the colour worst represented by monitors, so by choosing a shade of green we are committing ourselves to fail on 50% of our users' hardware.
How many of us do calibrate our monitor with a pantone? Besides, the important is that the person who does the work has their own monitor calibrated. Since this is just a wallpaper and not a branding image or something to be used on printing, I don't see much of a trouble.
You can not hold ourselves responsible for people not having their monitors calibrated, do we ?
Calibration can't really help here. To clarify what I said: Artwork should be attractive and be agreeable to most of our users. Since green tones are not reproduced accurately by many monitors, there is a higher chance that green artwork will look dull (the user's monitor's narrow range of green tones compresses the tonal range of the original artwork), or sludgy (the user's monitor shifts the designer's choice of green tones towards something ugly), so the artwork as presented to users who don't have high-fidelity monitors (especially netbooks) will not be attractive. Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+help@opensuse.org