JeevesBond — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:47:14 +0000

webwiz wrote: 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.

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.'

webwiz — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:59:05 +0000

JeevesBond said:

Quote: Why is it yellow that always looks wrong?

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?

JeevesBond — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:16:26 +0000

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?

webwiz — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:46:02 +0000

Quote: Has anyone else had problems getting yellow to look right?

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." :\

Megan — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:14:48 +0000

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.

pr0gr4mm3r — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:37:48 +0000

It looks fine on my LCD, CRT, and laptop display. Are your laptops the same type or brand?

Reece S — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:53:41 +0000

Hi Megan, IDK much about color dispalys on laptops, but this displays fine on mine... try using this code:

#FFFF00

Good Luck!