Re: Info-title-1-face is illegible on light background

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:24:15 -0500
> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> 
> 
> Just out of curiousity, can you describe _why_ green looks bad on those
> terminals?

I don't really know.  I'm stumped a bit myself, since at least the
DOS terminal uses the same hardware and the same basic colors as the
GNU/Linux console.

> The reason for the `yellow problem' on xterms is low contrast of
> a light color on a light color (non-bold yellow is rather muddy, but still
> light) -- is yellow on pc/w32 actually darker than green?

I think it could be the background: the DOS color setup uses
lightgray as the background, whereas xterm has a brighter, closer to
white background.

As for yellow vs green--I don't think it's darker, but I don't have a
good quantitative way to measure that.  Do you have any suggestions
how to do that?