I have Firefox 3 color options set so that visited links turn a dark Grey when clicked, every site seems to work with this but the sender and subject lines in Gmail.. What's strange is the links on the left hand side of the Gmail page (Inbox, starred, sent mail, drafts, etc ) go dark when clicked on. Does anyone know if Google uses some special CSS or something on the right hand side, can this be overridden so the visited links will turn the Grey I have checked?
posted on Jun 6, 2008 - 6 answers

Why does red text on black background appears 'closer to me' than green text on black background, when the two text elements are next to each-other? Other combinations yield all kinds of different 'distances'. [more inside]
posted on Jun 1, 2008 - 7 answers

How to make InDesign export colours properly? [more inside]
posted on Apr 17, 2008 - 20 answers

I need to do something very specific with Mail Merge (I think thats the best way to do it) but I have no idea how. Basically I want to take info from a spreadsheet and convert it into a variable number of different colored boxes of a constant size in a document. [more inside]
posted on Mar 26, 2008 - 1 answers

In Photoshop, all my colors appear in the wrong hue--sky blue shows up as bright pink, green shows up as yellow, red shows up as green. [more inside]
posted on Oct 12, 2007 - 13 answers

Amateur photographers want to find aspens in New Mexico. [more inside]
posted on Sep 19, 2007 - 5 answers

How do I setup color profiles on my Macbook Pro? Frighteningly long description inside. [more inside]
posted on Aug 23, 2007 - 7 answers

Apartment therapy: I'd rather not spend much time when I move out to mask my paint job in order to return its color to an institutional off-white ick. Which colors are the easiest to mask with minimal priming / effort? And how much will it cost? [more inside]
posted on Jul 12, 2007 - 9 answers

web colors question: using separate images for the rounded corners of a CSS div makes the main body and the corners different colors, although in photoshop they are identical... [more inside]
posted on Jun 1, 2007 - 13 answers

How can I automatically create a list of the RGB values in an ACT (color table) file? [more inside]
posted on Apr 13, 2007 - 2 answers

I just scanned in some 1970s-1980s family pictures (on print paper). Some of the colors seem washed out. Is there an easy way to improve the colors a bit? [more inside]
posted on Feb 23, 2007 - 9 answers

In the continuum of visible-light colors that makes a rainbow, we have red, orange, ... blue, indigo, and violet. But aestheticists tend to join the two ends together to make a "color wheel". They use this to predict pairs, trios, or quads of colors that are symmetrically placed in the wheel and therefore look nice or bad together. But, why does the continuum map to a circle at all? [more inside]
posted on Nov 30, 2006 - 21 answers

Which websites use color schemes similiar to this ?
posted on Jul 13, 2006 - 17 answers

How do I pick colors which look good together in colour, and at the same time can be readily distinguished from each other when converted to greyscale? [more inside]
posted on Jun 8, 2006 - 6 answers

How does one prove that all humans see the same colors? Is it possible? [more inside]
posted on May 31, 2006 - 82 answers

ColorManagementFilter: Why are my colors losing vivacity after exporting from Photoshop? Example inside. [more inside]
posted on Apr 15, 2006 - 8 answers

Why do girls get all of the totally sweet shoes? [more inside]
posted on Dec 29, 2005 - 37 answers

Tomorrow I'm giving a lecture about color -- specifically, I'm talking to designers about how to create color palettes. The talk is more concerned with aesthetics (i.e. what color combinations are striking) than tools (i.e. how to pick colors in Photoshop). But there will be some tools talk. Since there are many designers here, I'd love to know all your color-related tips. As the Xmas season is coming, I am sharing one of my own tips inside... [more inside]
posted on Nov 15, 2005 - 15 answers

What fruits and vegetables do you know of that come in "odd" colors? [more inside]
posted on Sep 5, 2005 - 45 answers

I need to display information about approximately 16 elements. The display will be in row-column format and the order of the elements will be fixed. So the display will look like: text in colorA | text in colorB | text in colorC | ..... text in colorA | ..... How do I choose colors such that adjacent colors do not appear similar and that any given color is easily distinguished from the others? If you know of a good algorithm for choosing the set of colors or can point to an example of someone doing this well I would appreciate it. Also it would be nice if the result were not ugly.
posted on Jun 16, 2005 - 10 answers

Why are all of the logos for major fast food chains red and yellow? Is this psychological, readable, an offshoot of McDonalds? The ones I have seen are McDonalds, Carl's, Wedy's, Burger King, In and Out, Sonic, KooKooRoo - I'm trying to find one that is not yellow/red.
posted on Apr 26, 2005 - 27 answers

The primary colours are red,yellow & blue. All other colours can be made from them. Why then do computer screens etc use red, GREEN & blue?
posted on Feb 16, 2005 - 23 answers

Why are radiators (the things connected to your hot water system that heat a room) usually painted white, when white is the worst colour for heat radiation?
posted on Dec 13, 2004 - 19 answers

I am familiar with many of the sites on the web which generate a color palette from any given base color, but I don't understand how they determine which colors "go" with each other. What's the theory behind this? Is there any easy way to generate this kind of palette in Photoshop, Freehand, Fireworks, etc.?
posted on Sep 2, 2004 - 8 answers

BathroomFilter: We've talked tile before. I need help matching existing vintage colors [more inside].
posted on Aug 27, 2004 - 11 answers

Woke up this morning and my Sony Trinitron monitor looked weird. The colors are washed out, almost like a layer of white was put on top of it and the opacity was dropped way down. I degaussed it, turned it off, pulled the plug... nothing helps. Any ideas or is my wondermonitor dead?
posted on Apr 24, 2004 - 5 answers

To me, grey and gray are two different colors, not just two different spellings of the same color. I've asked a few friends, and so far I'm pretty much alone in my perceptions. Does anybody else think of two different colors depending on the spelling used?
posted on Apr 7, 2004 - 33 answers