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I thought everyone knew this but clicked to verify:
Light Green: Used on walls to reduce visual fatigue
It's the "default" color our brains like and zones out about. So it makes the emergency "look at me" colors stand out even more.
It's like the analog version of "blue light filters" on digital screens.
Actual white reflects too much light and becomes drastically.
I wonder if this is why XP had that grassy field background. Mix the blue sky and green grass together and it’s just about the same seafoam color.
Probably even earlier why win 95 loved that #008080 rgb:
Which is fun, because 8080 was a classic Intel processor.
I wonder if this is why nature has that grassy field background. Mix the blue sky and green grass together and it’s just about the same seafoam color.
God is seafoam
^ poetry
Can’t fool me—it’s actually haint blue to keep out the evil spirits.
Also on porches it helps keep wasps away, supposedly.
My wife and I took a tour of Hanford Site B. We were in the area and the tours are free. While the colors didn't stand out to me (they are meant not to), the 'font' in all of the (hand painted?) signs certainly did: they looked Exactly like they came from the Fallout games. Of course it's the other way around, but the consistency was striking.
Old school engineer/architects drawing boards were also covered with the same colour green mat for the same reason.