Extreme pinkness
I switched to my Windows box for a few hours today while I was backing up my Powerbook’s HD, and I noticed…
benhourigan.com looks very pink when viewed on a monitor that hasn’t been calibrated properly. This was not the intention. The background is meant to be a light tan, rather than salmon.
I blame Windows, for having such shoddy colour control. Of course, I never noticed how bad it was until I started using Mac OS X, and Linux is usually just as bad as Windows.
Since the fact that my uncalibrated readers are experiencing extreme pinkness displeases me, I will soon be changing the background colour. Any suggestions? Colour’s name and RGB values, please.
It looks tan on my screen. How dare you blame Windows when it’s obvious you just haven’t colour-calibrated correctly. You Mac-blinded ideologue bitch.
PS: maybe consider #2260aa or thereabouts
David
24 Apr 05 at 13:05
I like the present colour. I’m looking at it on Windows too and it’s neither “extreme pink” nor anything I would call tan.
I would describe the colour of your blog as mocha, or nutmeg.
laura
24 Apr 05 at 23:08
your background looks….hmm…tannish mocha. too grey to be called mocha, too dark to be called tan.
myst
25 Apr 05 at 1:23
tannish mocha….i’ll go with that. It reminds me of hot chocolate. The drink, not the super funky band
laura
25 Apr 05 at 19:23
or that horrible eurotrash band.
myst
25 Apr 05 at 23:05
Looks like your screens are working… and that one of mine isn’t. Maybe I’ll stick with what I’ve got.
Ben H
26 Apr 05 at 10:30
Hmm, Dave, #2260aa. I like it. I’m tempted, even though my site really does look tan after all. I swear I’ve tried to calibrate my PC monitor, but I just can’t get it looking right.
Ben H
28 Apr 05 at 22:07
Your screen smokes crack would be my first guess.
My second guess is perhaps you have your colour temperature set too low. most displays are set around 6000 kelvins i find, and most have two or three options by default, 5500K, 6500K and 9300K. many are manual and let you pick just about anything. sRGB specifies 6500K as the correct colour temperature for a correct whitepoint. increasing the colour temperature makes things look bluer, lowering makes them look redder. i suggest your colour temperature is too low for whatever reason when you use windows, your guess is as good as mine. actually at a guess i’d say your monitor and operating systems support ddc/ci and perhaps one os or another is changing the colour temperature.
this is all academic now anyway since i believe you gave it away or sold it to someone.
David Lo Pan
25 Jul 06 at 0:03