Comments on: Extreme pinkness

By: David Lo Pan

David Lo Pan — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:03:49 +0000

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.

By: Ben H

Ben H — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:07:01 +0000

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.

By: Ben H

Ben H — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:30:33 +0000

Looks like your screens are working… and that one of mine isn’t. Maybe I’ll stick with what I’ve got.

By: myst

myst — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:05:34 +0000

or that horrible eurotrash band.

By: laura

laura — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:23:24 +0000

tannish mocha….i’ll go with that. It reminds me of hot chocolate. The drink, not the super funky band

By: myst

myst — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 14:23:50 +0000

your background looks….hmm…tannish mocha. too grey to be called mocha, too dark to be called tan.

By: laura

laura — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:08:10 +0000

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.

By: David

David — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 02:05:18 +0000

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