Has anyone else had problems getting yellow to look right? Specifically, the problem I'm having is that the shades of yellow I'm working with look really orange on laptops. And I've tried 3 laptops so it's not the colour settings on my laptop.
Here's a test page:
http://www.meganmcdermott.com/projects/yellow.html
Does anyone here have any experience with this problem? Are there any tricks to get yellow to display properly on a webpage in different monitors? I can sort of live with the orange but nothing approaching pink!
Megan
My web design blog
Reece S posted this at 12:53—18th December 2007.
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Hi Megan, IDK much about color dispalys on laptops, but this displays fine on mine... try using this code:
#FFFF00
Good Luck!
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 14:37—18th December 2007.
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It looks fine on my LCD, CRT, and laptop display. Are your laptops the same type or brand?
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Megan posted this at 15:14—18th December 2007.
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So those yellows are showing as yellow for you on all? Hmmm... I've tried this on 3 laptops (Lenovo, Apple, and Acer). I'm going to head over to the library and check some other machines tomorrow sometime.
Megan
My web design blog
webwiz posted this at 00:46—19th December 2007.
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Yes. I once used a subtle yellow background to my blog-- #eec; Showing it off to different people, some reported "gray" and one "olive". Few said they saw "yellow." :\
Cordially, David
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JeevesBond posted this at 13:16—19th December 2007.
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Know what you mean about yellow showing up oddly. Those swatches look pretty good to me though, all look yellow (although I did have to fiddle with the gamma settings in the ole xorg.conf).
Why is it yellow that always looks wrong?
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webwiz posted this at 23:59—21st December 2007.
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JeevesBond said:
Just guessing here, but LCD displays use fluorescent tubes as backlighting. If you spend time in any office lit by fluorescents, you'll surely have noticed the light is not as "warm" as filament bulbs. That's due to lack of yellow in the light.
Although fluorescents are not as bad in this as they once were, I'm pretty sure they still lack some parts of the yellow spectrum. Anyone have information on this?
Cordially, David
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JeevesBond posted this at 12:47—22nd December 2007.
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Might be right there, on this laptop I had to turn down the blue in my gamma settings substantially, that's a cold colour. Maybe it was suffering lack of warmth, not just 'too much blue.'
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