How Well Do You See Colors?

dustin — 2008-09-17T01:29:02-04:00

The FM 100 Hue Test is an interesting little game.
See how well you can detect color changes.

I scored 82 without spending that much time on it (a perfect score is 0). You?

Mac OS X 10.4 uses colors when anti-aliasing text

dustin — 2005-05-01T18:18:07-04:00

I just installed the recently released Mac OS 10.4. Thankfully Lux appears to work without any problems. One thing that I immediately noticed was that all the text that gets drawn on the board looks different. I investigated further and have come to the conclusion that when OSX 10.4 anti-aliases text it uses colors, even if the text is black on a white background!

This isn't just for Lux though, the system does it everywhere. Here's are close-ups of the OSX menubar that show the difference between the 10.3 and 10.4 (close-ups provided by the lovely developer tools app Pixie):

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How Well Do You See Colors?

Mac OS X 10.4 uses colors when anti-aliasing text