Thinkpads Forum

So, I have a dilemma here. I often use a 1600x900 external LCD while I surf at home and the color of this site is aqua-marine (Blue/Green) for the thick top bar and bold text, and the panels are grey and a lighter grey and white. I picked up a Thinkpad that has the same resolution but the colors are drastically different. The thick top bar and bold text are royal blue, and the bottom panels are bluish grey, a lighter bluish grey, and white. Can someone with a calibrated LCD tell me which is correct, or are they both wrong? I am thinking the new laptops LCD is way too blue, or is my main LCD not blue enough? .

Rightclick on the desktop, select Properties, Desktop tab.
Click on the little arrow at the right side of the Color button. Click on Other to expand the Color screen.
It is quite possible they picked the standard Basic Color at pos. 6 from the left and 2 from the top from the swatch panel.
Click on that, then on the right use the slider till you get close to: R=0, G=107, B=159.
That is roughly the color of the FAT cross bar on a good LCD (mine is HP LP1964).
HTH

RBS, I am runing Windows 7 with an NVidia GPU with it's own control panel. None of those options are there.

Harry, I look at the forum almost everyday on two different CRT monitors, one LCD desktop monitor, and at least three different ThinkPads. The colors look so similar between all those displays that I have never noticed a difference. I wouldn't call the colors anyting but different shades of blue. As I'm writing this looking at the reply box, the dark bar at the top is a dark blue. The area around the box I'm writing in is lighter than sky blue, and the shading around the emoticons is an even lighter blue. The only green I see is the tns Spo Cmn in the forums multicolor title. Probably just the difference in the way we describe the colors, though.

Neil wrote: As I'm writing this looking at the reply box, the dark bar at the top is a dark blue.

Neil, that's the way it looks on my new Thinkpad as well. I think my main Samsung LCD is off on color calibration because that bar is definitely a teal or aqua-marine color. It has green in it. I'll mess with it later. Thanks for the input.

There's a lot of color info on phpbb here: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... 045#navbar
If you have an HTML capable editor, save the code below as e.g. test.htm and open it in your browser.

Thanks RBS, that is the color on my Samsung external. The Thinkpad is dark navy blue.

Play some with the Gamma and Saturation settings to adjust the color.
That bar is more Wedgwood blue than navy blue.

Thanks, I'll play with it. I just realized that the problem with displaying a color like in the html code you gave me is that if the LCD color or other setting is off, it will display the same color incorrectly . So it would make sense that it would match the forum bar on the LCD I view it on.

Methinks a decent external monitor would display the colors much more exact than a laptop.
The colors in my example are the exact numbers as used on phpBB.
This text is also in that bar-color.
Ignore my wedgwood remark from before, it's more like pale Royal blue.


Edit: come to think of it, the Links in my signature are much closer to the Bar-color.