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    1. Help Requested On Colo(u)r Scheme
    2. J.E. Myers
    3. Dear CFTW-ers, In desperation I'm asking for help from my fellow-CFTW-ers because a lot of you are technically oriented and all of you can help by letting me know what colors you see. Admittedly this is off-subject; on the other hand traffic has been light lately. It concerns programmed vs. perceived colors on EMQUAD's web pages. The company colors are meant to be burgundy on ivory (the colors of its stationery) and I reproduced these the best I could, first using BG=#DEC9AD and text=#961656. They looked nifty on my screen and stayed there several months. But then I queried some correspondents and I got back from some of them the the colors appeared as "bright purply-pink on a light greenish-yellow background," which sounded absolutely disgusting to me; whereas other correspondents found the colors as I wanted them to be. This appears not to be browser-dependent, but I'm not sure. I use Net Nav and last night I spent several hours trying to "improve" the colors. Quotes around "improve" mean that the original ones looked fine to me. What I settled on were BG=#EADDC7 and text=#8F1B67. Would you mind terribly much viewing the site http://home.att.net/~emquad and describing to me what colors you see? The previous scheme - which I still prefer - can still be seen at http://home.att.net/~emquad/backup.html for comparison's sake. Does anyone have a color chart with specific codes for burgundy and ivory? I can't find any on the net or in the library. Naturally, I want the colors to appear warm and attractive, not sickly and off-putting! Many thanks in advance and a healthy, happy, and prosperous New Year to all. Jon Myers

    12/30/1997 09:06:17