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"Too late. Semiotically blue now means 'power LED/main button', so monitors, computer cases, etcetera all have one blue LED for the power button. Even your toas
by rsync 10y ago
"Too late. Semiotically blue now means 'power LED/main button', so monitors, computer cases, etcetera all have one blue LED for the power button. Even your toaster has a blue LED on its on/off-switch."
Red/off, green/on (stop/go) has a much, much deeper symbolic link and would be easy to adopt and be understood - no matter how entrenched blue LED symbolism has, or will, become.
- Bartweiss 10y agoThe threat with red, though, is that it also has a strong symbolic link to "error". If you power down your console and suddenly see a red light, it conjures up awful memories of the Xbox 360.
- tempestn 10y agoProbably not ideal for the significant chunk of the population with red/green color blindness though.
- jessaustin 10y agoFor the sake of both efficiency and reason, "off" needs no color of LED at all.