Have you ever been in a talk where someone uses 100% green on a slide? The result is usually that no one can see what is shown unless it is a really large green area.
No, but I would have expected in that case appropriate bg. I've seen a
talk by MPL developer that he dislikes systems that help too much,
like I want it to do what I tell it to do 
Like cyan is not teal, and yellow is not 75% yellow etc.
I really would have expected that MPL uses some nifty CMYK scheme (as
in CorelDraw approxiamtion i.e.) instead the one usually defined as in
html color names: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp
which are commonly used (gnuplot i.e.), but MPL doesn't even use that
Can this colors be defined (i.e. in matplotlibrc) w/o changing MPL source?
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On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Felix Patzelt wrote:
My guess is that this happens because rod cells which are the most light sensitive ones have very similar wavelength responsiveness to the cone cells (the ones for color vision) which react to green light. Hence, you just don't have as much contrast for green text on a white background as you have for example for blue text. Also, green on black is much easier to read than blue or red on black by the same argument.
