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Ask HN: Why is free space pink colored?
Something that I was wondering for a long long time, and I still have no answer to:
In the drive properties of windows, the free space is marked as pink or purple, the used space blue. Why not a shade of green and red?
Has this a design reason or historical techical reason?
- duochrome 13y agoI know that purple is very close to invisible lights. Maybe that's the reason. Purple, invisible, nothing.
- pavlov 13y agoProbably a Microsoft programmer once wrote a line like this as a placeholder so he could get something on screen: fillColor = (used) ? 0x0000ff : 0xff00c0; And then he got an emergency assignment to fix an obscure SQL Server bug related to NTFS extended attributes, and "fillColor" was never touched again.
- tomw1808 13y agois it 0xff00c0 ? On my windows machine here its either 0xff00ff or 0x0000ff Eventually he was just lazy and had no color palette ready?
- LarryMade2 13y agoOk, lets go back first IBM standard graphics mode ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter ) had a limited palette which was black, light cyan, light magenta and white. maybe they were being backwards compatible. Seems as logical as any other theory