gmattson wrote:Bill:
Regarding the color choice. I'm color blind (greens & reds) and find the color choice here to be fine. On most monitors there are options regarding color balance - intensity that might need tweaking on your computer.
Lets see if we get any other comments/suggestions from other posters before changing anything.
George:One shouldn't have to change settings on a monitor so that it works for this forum (making unrealistic contrast settings) while distorting a simple photograph for every other web viewing. I can view this with my Dell laptop monitor and my massive Samsung side monitor (giving a two-screen Windows view) and it's problematic in both. You don't want to know what I paid for that Samsung monitor... It's as good as it gets. And I don't muck with the settings because it gives me a realistic viewing of a photo.
It's my job when delivering information to customers to have it visually appealing. There are simple choices that can be made which would make this better. Even if I switch this to black and white - simulating complete color blindness - it's problematic. The color choices before were fine; this not so much.
If you go into Microsoft Excel and choose INSERT > TABLE for a section of data with column headings, there are color choices that separate the individual rows so that one can easily follow a line of data. Microsoft got it right. You can choose lots of different colors. The default is pure white and a shade of blue, with dark blue for the column heading row. Others colors work as well. Use this as a kind of industry benchmark, and you'll do well. Another choice would be to have thick black lines outlining the boxes rather than the white contrasting with the very light blue.
Bill