Because we could not distinguish it enough when there are many controls on the board. Exactly because color is used so sparingly makes a light blue efficient. Any design will depend on someone's perception, but this does not mean that there cannot be reasons behind it :). Cheers, Doru On 13 Jan 2011, at 13:31, Torsten Bergmann wrote:

Tudor Girba

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I tried to start from zero and add a new variable (e.g., color) only when I >could not distinguish something

If that is true then why do you use the additional blue for activated buttons instead of using a gray one:

lightSelectionColor ^ Color gray

in your original theme - you can distinguish buttons already using the gray-style gradient (see attached example).

However ... all of this is very specific to a particular persons view of the world. As you said you've choosen blue since it is the color of Moose...

Bye T.

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