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>Do others find yellow almost unreadable on their screens?
Yes, that was why I only used yellow for the word yellow because I find yellow very hard to read.
That's all white then, Jo. I was green with envy that yellow text could be red by other purple. After your explanation, my blues are gone, and I'll orange my posts to minimize unreadable colors.
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you people either have no imagination, or are just plain yellow -- you shouldn't feel so constrained to stay within the boundaries of black and white! think outside the same old colorless box.  
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tsuwm,
I don't think we're bold enough to try it.
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don't think we're bold enoughHah! we'll see about that!Let's have an AWAD ....................N............I...............B .......A.......... ..........O...R................................W.....! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Now we just need Jo to get her loons out, and the 70s are back!
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within the boundaries of black and white! think outside the same old colorless box. I have always been given to understand that white is ALL the colours. So this would make the box infinitely colourful.
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All right, who keeps telling us that white is all colours and black is the absence of colours. If I mash all my colours one on top of each other I invariably get a dark black mash - I have never gotten white - even if I melt down wax crayons into completely blended mess (ask my mom about that one).
I think this must be one of the <lies to children> that are often told when there is no understandable explanation.
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you're confusing incident light with reflected light. white light is the combination of all colors of light; mix red and green light and you get yellow. mix red and green paint and you get... well, some sort of mawkish red-green. http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/color4.html
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Hey belM
'Colour' is just the sum of wavelengths of light entering your eye. If you have a source of light (something that produces it) then the more wavelengths represented (the more 'colours' you add) the closer the experience will be to white light.
Objects that you see on a day to day basis (apart from light bulbs) work by reflecting a certain wavelength of light at you. The reason they do this is because, essentially, they absorb all other wavelengths. This is something that our teachers in school never made very clear - an object appears to have a colour because it absorbs all other colours, so the only light reflected off it is what's left. If you think about it this way, it becomes simpler to understand why, if you mix pigments, each of which absorbs all but one colour, you will eventually end up with an amorphous blend that absorbs most light and reflects small portions from various patches in the spectrum - hence a dull brownish-grey as your final result.
tsuwm, of course, explained all this a great deal more concisely, but I just couldn't resist.
cheer
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WHOA, tsuwm, what a WONDERFUL link! OH!
THANK YOU!
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Agree with Jackie. Outstanding link. Thanks for that.
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