[consulting] On Visual Design Challenges, or Can you make it darker than that?

[Joshua Brauer]

Some more information on the origins and methods of showing on the  
screen they are the same...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_color_illusion


On Oct 24, 2009, at 11:20 AM, pwriter at zunzone.com wrote:

> Hi Matt,
> I just could not believe that the squares are the same color.  I  
> also used the eye dropper to compare -- same.  Still did not believe  
> it.  Printed out two copies of the pic and cut out the A to place it  
> over the B -- yep they are the same. Just goes to show you... you  
> can't trust your own eyes.
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [consulting] On Visual Design Challenges, or Can you make it
> darker than that?
> From: Matt Chapman <Matt at NinjitsuWeb.com>
> Date: Fri, October 23, 2009 6:28 pm
> To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
> <consulting at drupal.org>
>
> Happy Friday everyone. Or Saturday for the folk in Asia.
>
> I just found this, and had to pull out KColorPicker to verify. The
> experience reminded me of the frustration of dealing with clients who
> make vague requests for pointless or impossible visual design changes.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grey_square_optical_illusion.PNG
>
> Square's A and B are the exact same color. Really.
>
> That's why I'll stick to writing code, thank you very much. :-)
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Matt
>
>
>
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Thanks,
Josh

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