M
Mark
Is there a way to change my new email default background color from white
to something else
to something else
P
Paul Berkowitz
In HTML, yes. (Nobody much will want to receive these, though, but that's
your business.) Click the "abab" button in the lower message toolbar,
Format/HTML menu item. Then click and hold the button second from right edge
in the same toolbar to get lurid background colors, or any that take your
fancy.
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Barry Wainwright
Note that this will only work on a message-by-message basis. To do something
a bit more permanent, get Paul's Message Template script:
<http://www.scriptbuilders.net/category.php?id=1456>
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Bill Weylock
Paul -
I know you don't like background colors, but can you take a minute and
explain why?
I think it must be something more than aesthetics?
Best,
- Bill
I know you don't like background colors, but can you take a minute and
explain why?
I think it must be something more than aesthetics?
Best,
- Bill
P
Paul Berkowitz
No, I can't rally explain it, Bill. It's just subjective. Partly it's hard
to get a color light enough to read the grey print over it. So-called black
text is not black like printed text unless you use special fonts (like you
do) or bold, making text look bulkier. So the background has to be really,
really light for me to read clearly over it and tolerate it. This here is
about the maximum, actually maybe over the maximum, and I had to really
fiddle with it. It's less than a milimetre off-centre in the Color picker,
and lightest possible grayscale. Anything stronger than this I find a)
objectively, hard to read and b) subjectively, lurid and off-putting. I
guess I like colors - especially stronger colors - only for highlights.
I have often defended people who like HTML when they manage to make their
formatting what I find to be tasteful. Formatting - use of bold, italics,
sparing use of color as identifier or for emphasis, and structured white
space - can not only be pleasing but also help meaning get across. I just
don't find that background color helps meaning in the slightest, and most
backgrounds I do not find tasteful. I think that's because - unlike white
space which offsets the text in front - colored space is a distraction from
the text in front, and runs the danger of obscuring.
Overwhelming all these considerations, however, is that fact that 90% of
messages I have ever received with background color have been those default
options easily available by a single click, almost all 10 times too bright
for me. Lurid (as I've said a few times). Even "Parchment" is about 10 times
stronger than what I'm using here, let alone Seafoam or Purple or Yellow...
It's just an unpleasant distraction most of the time. IMO.
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From: Bill Weylock <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 05:13:38 -0700
Subject: Re: change default background color
Paul -
I know you don't like background colors, but can you take a minute and
explain why?
I think it must be something more than aesthetics?
Best,
- Bill
to get a color light enough to read the grey print over it. So-called black
text is not black like printed text unless you use special fonts (like you
do) or bold, making text look bulkier. So the background has to be really,
really light for me to read clearly over it and tolerate it. This here is
about the maximum, actually maybe over the maximum, and I had to really
fiddle with it. It's less than a milimetre off-centre in the Color picker,
and lightest possible grayscale. Anything stronger than this I find a)
objectively, hard to read and b) subjectively, lurid and off-putting. I
guess I like colors - especially stronger colors - only for highlights.
I have often defended people who like HTML when they manage to make their
formatting what I find to be tasteful. Formatting - use of bold, italics,
sparing use of color as identifier or for emphasis, and structured white
space - can not only be pleasing but also help meaning get across. I just
don't find that background color helps meaning in the slightest, and most
backgrounds I do not find tasteful. I think that's because - unlike white
space which offsets the text in front - colored space is a distraction from
the text in front, and runs the danger of obscuring.
Overwhelming all these considerations, however, is that fact that 90% of
messages I have ever received with background color have been those default
options easily available by a single click, almost all 10 times too bright
for me. Lurid (as I've said a few times). Even "Parchment" is about 10 times
stronger than what I'm using here, let alone Seafoam or Purple or Yellow...
It's just an unpleasant distraction most of the time. IMO.
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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From: Bill Weylock <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 05:13:38 -0700
Subject: Re: change default background color
Paul -
I know you don't like background colors, but can you take a minute and
explain why?
I think it must be something more than aesthetics?
Best,
- Bill
B
Bill Weylock
That¹s actually the way I feel about it.
The color you came up with is about what I would choose....
Maybe a little less red...
And you¹re right that your text is harder to read than I would like because
of the background.
I thought maybe it added a lot of bytes to the messages as well.
Thanks for the explanation. Get it totally.
Best,
- Bill
The color you came up with is about what I would choose....
Maybe a little less red...
And you¹re right that your text is harder to read than I would like because
of the background.
I thought maybe it added a lot of bytes to the messages as well.
Thanks for the explanation. Get it totally.
Best,
- Bill
B
Barry Wainwright
Very little. It changes this:
<BODY>
Into this:
<BODY BGCOLOR=3D"#FFFBF1">
That's all!