Your Computer Matters – Color, Computers and Resolutions
Color Matters – Color and Computers – http://www.colormatters.com/comput.html.
Here’s a wonderful introduction to how to interpret color on a computer screen – seeing is not always believing.
Here’s a few lines from it:
Here’s the path that the graphic took to get to you:
1. The image was placed in an html script (web page) that can be read by all Web browsers. This script was sent to the Color Matters’ web server computer in Honolulu, Hawaii.
2. Your Web browser software connected your computer to our server and brought the image into your computer. The colors in this gif image passed through the browser and brought this information into your computer operating system.
3. The colors in the image passed through your operating system hardware. If you have a graphic card or video card it may have joined in to interpret the color.
4. Your monitor took all the information and sent it to your eyes.
In conclusion, remember that different computers do different things, many “systems” have different configurations of all of the above things, and browsers used to view the World Wide Web are part of the overall picture.
Related item to consider may be screen resolutions :
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Display Resolution
The current trend is that most computers are using a screen size of 1024×768 pixels or more:
| Date | Higher | 1024×768 | 800×600 | 640×480 | Unknown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2009 | 57% | 36% | 4% | 0% | 3% |
| January 2008 | 38% | 48% | 8% | 0% | 6% |
| January 2007 | 26% | 54% | 14% | 0% | 6% |
| January 2006 | 17% | 57% | 20% | 0% | 6% |
| January 2005 | 12% | 53% | 30% | 0% | 5% |
| January 2004 | 10% | 47% | 37% | 1% | 5% |
| January 2003 | 6% | 40% | 47% | 2% | 5% |
| January 2002 | 6% | 34% | 52% | 3% | 5% |
| January 2001 | 5% | 29% | 55% | 6% | 5% |
| January 2000 | 4% | 25% | 56% | 11% | 4% |
