Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Oct 5 2007 15:24, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:21:57PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> Indeed it should be 0x07, should it go in.
>> Otherwise the openbsd camp might start another flamewar.
>> 
>> (On a personal note, would 0x1F work better for you?)
>
>No, I actually find most things hard to read on a blue background.
>Besides black uses less power on a CRT (and probably OLED as well)
>monitor.  LCDs probably don't care.  :)
>
Ah you seem to be a proponent of http://www.blackgoogle.com/
then :-)  Unfortunately, it seems like Xft uses Grayscale AA
(http://antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html)
so black background make the font look thinner.
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