Making paper the default style?

[Bill Barry]

Dennis Brakhane wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:21 AM, David Champion <dgc at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>   
>> Knowing that there are alternating colors, I can see the darker ones
>> as a vague cloud, but the contrast is low enough that it registers
>> as background, more like marble-textured paper.  It doesn't help me
>> visually distinguish the rows at all.  #f0f0f0 is enough change to
>> do it, though.
>>     
>
> FWIW, #f0f0f0 looks better to me, too.
>   
+1
#f5f5f5 is not enough here either. It is just enough to be distracting 
to the background, but not quite enough to be useful. #f0f0f0 is much 
better (#f3f3f3 is enough actually, no idea why).

fwiw, on the colors:
1. The green/orange/yellow on the graph are all almost exactly the same.
2. The named colors red and green are almost exactly the same 
(crimson/green is much better, the slight blue lets me tell it apart 
much more easily, is crimson supported on all browsers? hex is #DC143C). 
They are currently being used for .minusline and .plusline
3. I don't really care (I've given up being frustrated with colors 
people choose for applications/websites; last I heard my opinion counts 
for <1% of the male population, it is like screaming the site doesn't 
work right in links, nobody listens [btw, I haven't attempted that])

(WinXP, Firefox 3, LCD, 32bit color, Deuteranopia [M-Cone absent])
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