> the clean appearance of the screen comes mostly from laziness, but the color scheme is (obviously) deliberate. the intent was to build on an observation by ed

> the clean appearance of the screen comes mostly from laziness, but the color scheme is (obviously) deliberate. the intent was to build on an observation by edward tufte that the human system likes nature and nature is full of pale colors, so something you’re going to look at all day might best serve if it were also in relaxing shades. renee french helped me with the specifics of the color scheme (she’s a professional illustrator and my color vision is suspect), once i’d figured out how i wanted it to look. there are still some features of the color system that i put in that i think no one has ever noticed. that’s a good thing, in my opinion; the colors should fade away, if you’ll pardon the expression. having used other systems with different approaches to color screens, most especially windows XP (extra pukey), i think tufte was right. -rob rob pike discussing the design of plan9 on the 9fans mailing list back in 2003. https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558908224071 https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558908224071