Because change is difficult at first, I took bias against this new color scheme...  however, it is starting to grow on me.  (just thought I would say...)

GM Luna wrote: @HM Below reference for black vs. dark blue. It's a subtle difference, but a difference. Especially to a designer. ;)

I can tell the difference, but only just.  I have two monitors--one using the traditional TN panel technology, and another using C-PVA, one of the early cheap IPS knockoffs.  If my TN panel weren't calibrated, the difference would be substantial.  On the other hand if my C-PVA panel weren't calibrated, it would be impossible to tell the difference even with all other light sources removed and the surrounding monitor shielded from my eyes.  That, and the two panels would look wildly different from each other in brightness, contrast, saturation, and even hue (and even the differences themselves would be very inconsistent), which would be pretty nasty.

Incidentally, TN panels are still the more common ones owned, but can hardly be found on the market any more (due to the IPS knockoffs getting better).  IPS panels, by the way, are the nice 1-1.5 thousand dollar displays designers use for their excellent brightness profile and accurate color reproduction.  Of course when I say designers, I mean of print media, since expecting that level of control over the images people perceive in desktop publishing is still a pipe dream.  Some of the new VA type panels are bringing us closer with excellent hardware gamma profiles and decent color reproduction, but that's in comparison to the old TN panels.  TN panels don't even support more than 6 bits of color per channel--there's no point since the error margin is much larger than the last 2 bits of precision anyway.

I have noticed that bullet points • are now showing up as diamonds with ? marks in them unless I switch Chrome's encoding from Unicode (UTF-8) to Western (ISO-8859-1). I'm not sure what other characters this might affect. The fix is easy enough (just a drop-down menu and a click) on my end to correct it, but it raises the question of "Did y'all mean to do that?"

Edited by Beriadanwen - 06 Mar 2012 at 06:47