On 1/26/2018 11:54 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
Duane wrote:

Having everything black, e.g.
equipment (very common for computer stuff
for example) is also detrimental as 1) you
get depressed just by looking at it, and 2)
it is (more) difficult to find the thing
you'd like if everything is the same color.


Sounds like a personal opinion.

Well, colors are emotional. Even as a boy
I loved colors. Isn't that pretty uncommon?
Try take LSD and ride your bike thru
a post-industrial area at night. That will be
colorful. Actually one can have almost the same
effect, at least with respect to the lights,
with this method. Take a hot shower with the
lights off for ~10m. Then take a cold shower
(with the controls to the max cold) for as long
as you endure. By swallowing water it will be
even colder. Then ride the bike after sunset.
Now the lights will look really cool, like oily
and flashy. And this effect lasts for hours!
(It'll be left as an exercise to figure out
how I discovered this method.)

Colors are a matter of taste yes but generally
speaking there are some general truths.

Black makes things look smaller and is
depressing, associated with death, fear, and
so on.

White isn't anything really but makes things
look bigger.

Red is associated with danger (from fire, and
blood perhaps as well).

Green is soothing. The human eye is best suited
to distinguish differences, nuances, in green -
maybe from evolution, looking for food in the
jungle? So it makes sense to have many shades
of green.

Functionally speaking, and many have an eye for
this which is also connected to the perception
of beauty, I think the direction should be not
to have different, adjacent things in the exact
same color. This looks wierd. This is why the
Swiss bike in the OP looks bad to me. It looks
like it is made out of two parts, like a toy or
something artificial, not the real thing.

What depresses me about computer equipment is
working when it's a nice riding day.
Not the color.

With computers the background should be black
to reduce the light that enters your eyes for
decoding. Everything else should be colorized
according to function to reduce "reading" and
increase "seeing":

http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/dumps/elisp.png



What about a bright blue/yellow Svensk flag colored bicycle?
Oughta be safe right?

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