Re: Fedora Infinity Update

[Máirí­n Duffy <duffy redhat com>]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Lun 13 août 2007 08:47, Jiri Jakub Masek a écrit :
> > Hi Máirín, I like them, the fourth is the best, the third looks good
> > but I
> > can't accept the perspective of *pyramid steps*, it needs more work on
> > dimensions to look naturally, I think...
>
> I'm afraid I'm going to complain about colours again :)
>
> Purple is to be used very sparingly in artwork. You'll almost never
> see largely purple pages in ads or magazines, because that's a colour
> many people don't react well too (learnt it the hard way a few years
> ago). Seems we're wired to associate purple with sickness.

This sounds like a bit of an urban myth? I've never heard of this and 
I've a design degree - I would love to know where you've heard this?

> If you do purple you need a very contrasting colour so the result does
> not appear predominantly purple. That or a red fringing.

~m