Looking for LCD graphic display approximately 6 inches by 1.5 inches (150 mm by 30 mm). High-resolution not required; I'm apparently limited by my size requirements.
I don't see anything more than square-ish displays on e-bay.
Suggestions?
Thanks.
You should go to the manufacturers web sites. They may have something closer to what you need. But you are going to have trouble finding a display with this form factor off the shelf.
-- Rick
Maybe you can find something to your liking here:
What is wrong with web page designers that makes them use grey for text? Are they really trying to make their pages hard to read? They even use dark grey text against a light grey background.
resolution, 127.16 x 33.88 mm viewable area. I hope their modules are easier to read than their web pages.
-- Rick
Sorry, rickman, I didn't design the Web pages. Please contact the Web author.
I'm not ragging on you. I am ranting in general. I see this often on web pages. Someone decided it looks nicer to use less contrast on their pages. Fine if you are browsing for beauty. I just want to be able to read the durn things.
-- Rick
I agree wholeheartedly. However, there is often a link on the page leading to the author. I would advise using it. I have done so in the past. Might get nothing, or might get some improvement.
Cheers
Den torsdag den 30. oktober 2014 18.37.22 UTC+1 skrev Mike Cook:
close enough ?
-Lasse
These guys are good:
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?"I'm not ragging on you. I am ranting in general. I see this often on
I agree with you 3,000 %. What do these people use for eyes ? Don't they re alize the stuff they sell is not being bought by 16 year old webdesigners w ith 20/05 vision, no floaters and absolutely clear lenses ? If I was the ow ner of the company I would say something and get them to fix it. If the own er of the company does not do that, draw your own conclusion. Not knowing t he market is not good. Look how old osme of htese engineers are, some with even worse eyesight than me and that is saying something. (runs in the fami ly)
There is usually a workaround though just so you know, mark the text. I mea n drag the mouse across it as if you are going to copy and paste it somewhe re, just don't hit copy. I have to do this more than I'd like for that exac t reason. What do these idiots think ?
I fact I prefe white text on a black background, like old DOS. At least I c an read that. Of course now asshole Windows makes it white on blue. Why ?
And another rant, when Windows decided that it was going to be black on whi te, were they getting kickbacks from monitor manufacturers for wearing out the cathodes in the CRTs ? I'd bet, we know they are in cahootz with every other hardware manfacturer out there.
Of course now with LCD it is a whole different story, but that is no excuse for before. Hell, 15 years ago I started to turn down the brightness on my monitors.
Anyway, to actually comment on the OP, I am a bit surprised that Digikey an d all them have nothing like what he needs.
On a sunny day (Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:30:23 -0700 (PDT)) it happened snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in :
I agree to some point. Just yesterday when buiding something with a lot of SMDs I realized how lost I would have been without glasses.... At age 40 you probably had to find an other job.. Extrapolating on that I thought when are we gona get the brain amplifier sort of gadget as standard thing people have... :-)
But on the more practical side, when in color TV we had to learn something called colormetrics. It is about how colors are formed by mixing and addition, how the human eye perceives this, and it should be required stuff for web page designers really.
Personally I run a lot of terminals black text on a white background. The reason for black text on a white background is simple: the light intensity changes are much more pleasant to the eye than when using a black background. because of the overal white the eye's pupil, sensitivity, is set to a fixed level, set your white to the environment light intensity. The little text that can or cannot be on screen makes little difference. When staring at a big black surface however and then looking into say the room, then the eye needs to adapt every time. For perceived 'white' on teefees or moneytors it is safe to use the formula: white = .3Red + .59Green + .11Blue From this you can for example see that blue on green is good contrast, and you should avoid blue on red. Any combination there of, its simple, blue on white is good, blue on black is the worst (only 11% contrast). All this should be required stuff, as well as saturation, contrast, blacklevel, color temperature etc etc, for those who make content displayed ANNIE WHERE, from moneytors to traffic signs. ...
I should join you in the rant. What is worse, is having the web page greyed out and covered by something else - usually not relevant to what one was looking for, or a "special" that nobody gives a damn about. I also hate overlays ("feedback" boxes,etc) of text on top/over the web page. This is all shit that cannot be prevented; programmers found out that "pop-ups" are (usually) preventable and are now using this crap. I could cheerfully choke them.
I respectfully ask: "show me ONE".
I don't see a Webmaster email link on the page link I posted. I would email the sales department, which is listed, and let them know the trouble. I'm sure they will contact the Webmaster.
Maybe it is background color hex080808 and text color hex090909.
Actually some webdesigners hide keywords that way. Black on black or white on white that might get picked up on a search. The right way to do it is with some sort of meta tag or something. I forget.
Of course alot of that has changed with so much java and whatnot. I like the old HTML myself. You couldn't do all that much with it but you could get your point across and could write it yourself. Easily.
Here's a page anyone should be able to read just fine written ONLY with HTML, what's wrong with it ?
Now when yopu want to do commerce I understand there is a difference, but a simple page shold be a simple page. Incidentally that page was redone for the guy, and looks almost identical. I wonder what he charged to convert it to javascript.
John S wrote:
Domain Name: PHOENIXDISPLAY.COM Registry Domain ID: 151305343_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.easydns.com Registrar URL:
Although that page looks readable to me I can undesrstand you.
I stopped using white backgrounds ages ago as themes with dark background are much more readable because they don't bring eyes to saturation. This is why grey on black (or even dark grey) is much more readable than the same grey on white background. Too bad most web/app/desktop programmers/designers are still stuck to the page-made-of-paper concept. A white screen emits light while a piece of paper reflects it; when will they learn the difference?
A search for "dark theme" on Google images will bring some examples.
For me this is wrong, at least with displays that emit light. Dark text on bright background is clearer and light text on black background is fuzzy. I presume it's because the dark background means my iris opens up wide to let light in and this means I lose depth of focus. Maybe your theory holds on younger people with really good eyes.
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