Background colour?

[Adam Frost]

I think that there should be a way so that the fills can be white if needed
so that the readability is better (ie when it is on a picture background, or
when the hands are over each other), but you are right that when you have a
dark background that the "white" fill should match the background. Maybe
there is a way so that you can program the white fill to be the background
color or "opposite" color to sign color. Steve? :-)

Adam

On Nov 9, 2007 8:52 PM, K.J. Boal <kjoanne403 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> You mean you're changing it so the palms are always white???  That's the
> part that looks wrong to me!  I like the ones with palms that are the
> background colour.  After all, if you were writing by hand on a piece of
> coloured paper, would you take a white pencil crayon to fill in the palms as
> well as the back of the hands?  I wouldn't.  I think I understand why you're
> doing it, in keeping with "palms lighter than the back of the hands" ... but
> what happens if you make the signs white?  Won't this programming make the
> right hand palm-facing-you look identical to a left hand palm-facing-away?
>
> Actually, I've just tried it . . . it really doesn't want to make the
> signs pure white, does it? (first picture)  Okay, the next colour over to
> white, that one shows - and yes, it's almost impossible to tell that the top
> one is palm facing you, and the bottom one is looking at the back of your
> hand.  Sorry, Val, but I think you might want to rethink . . .
>
> KJ
>
>
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> > From: signwriting at mac.com
> > Subject: Re: [sw-l] Background colour?
> > Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 20:21:36 -0800
> > To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>
> >
> > On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:04 PM, K.J. Boal wrote:
> > > By the way, I meant to ask this a moment ago before I got
> > > sidetracked . . . ;-) What's going on with the palms here? The 1-
> > > hand and closed-O hand both still have white in them for the palm,
> > > but the Y-hands later on have changed the palm to match the
> > > background. Did you know about that, Steve? It looks like it
> > > works properly for most handshapes - and I do love the option!
> > > KJ
> >
> >
> > Hi Kelly Jo -
> > That has to do with the ISWA symbols. I have already made all the
> > handshapes with the proper white palms now in all the handshapes here
> > on my local computer, but we have not installed the new ISWA yet into
> > SignPuddle, so right now the old IMWA symbol set only has a few
> > handshapes with the white palms...because at the time that the old
> > IMWA was installed in SignPuddle, I hadn't finished making all the
> > palms white yet...so when the new ISWA is released in January at the
> > same time that Steve releases the new source code for SignText...at
> > that time the new ISWA will be installed into SignPuddle and all the
> > palms will be white...
> >
> > Although I have already fixed all the symbols to be white, it is an
> > enormous job to install the symbols so they have to be installed all
> > at once in January...
> >
> > So until then, live with it! ;-))
> >
> > But aren't these colors beautiful? Thank you, Steve, for this...I
> > love looking at it...
> >
> > Val ;-)
> >
> >
>
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