Notes on ergono m ic c olo ur ad just men
t
Notes on e rgonomic colour adju
stment
If you select colours for the monitor in your application programmes,
take note of the information below.
The primary colours blue and red on a dark backgrou nd do n ot produce the minimum
required con trast of 3:1 and are therefore n ot suitable for continuous text and da ta entry.
When using several colours for characters and background and giving the primary colours full
modulation, you can obtain very suitable colour combinations (see the following table):
Characters
Background
black white purple blue
cyan green
yellow red
black
++
-
+++
-
white
+++
---
+
purple
++
-----
blue
-
+
-
+
-
+
-
cyan
+
--
+
---
green
+
--
+
---
yellow
+
-
++
--
+
red
-
+
----
+
+ Colour combination very suita ble
- Colour combination not suitable because colour hues are too close together, thin characters
are not identi fia ble or rigorous focusing is demand ed of the human eye.
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