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   ricardo :mastodon: (governa@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 20:49:44 JST ricardo :mastodon:

   #Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story

   https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-3-1-included-a-red-and-yellow-hot-dog-stand-color-scheme-so-garish-it-was-long-assumed-to-be-a-joke-so-i-tracked-down-the-original-designer-to-get-the-true-story/

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     abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 20:49:44 JST abadidea

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     • Eniko Fox

     @governa @eniko I distinctly remember my mother using this theme — and distinctly remember people who weren’t yet computering in the 3.1 era later refusing to believe me that this was a stock official theme.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 22:38:54 JST Rich Felker

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     • Eniko Fox

     @tess @eniko @0xabad1dea @governa It wasn't that bright, but also, I think the inaccessibility is unequally distributed. Blue spectrum being difficult to focus is (mainly?) a consequence of chromatic aberration in corrective lenses. Presumably ppl with good vision don't have it so hard.

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     Dana Fried (tess@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 22:38:55 JST Dana Fried

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     @eniko @0xabad1dea @governa least we forget, there was a whole era where state of the art presentation crafting involved the same color scheme.

     You know - putting your important bullet points against a color the eye can't focus well, for something designed to be viewed in a dark room 🙃

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     Eniko Fox (eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 22:38:57 JST Eniko Fox

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     @0xabad1dea @governa i wonder if they'd believe that before then lots of text editors had white text on retina-searing bright blue backgrounds

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 22:48:32 JST Rich Felker

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     @steve @tess @eniko @0xabad1dea @governa That may also be true but it's so much worse with chromatic aberration. And the blue isn't actually the detail you need to see. If background is blue and foreground is white, all the detail is in non blue channels anyway.

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     Steve Canon (steve@discuss.systems)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 22:48:33 JST Steve Canon

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     @dalias @tess @eniko @0xabad1dea @governa is that actually true? S-cones are only like 2% of retinal photoreceptor cells and are mostly not foveated.