Current standard subhead Plain text.	Swatch 1 White background, current PYM News logo
Current standard subhead Plain text.	Swatch 2 FFFFCC background, current PYM News logo
Current standard subhead Plain text.	Swatch 3 FFFFCC background, posterized/transparent logo
Current standard subhead Plain text.	Swatch 4 FFEECC background, posterized/transparent logo
Current standard subhead Plain text.	Swatch 5 FFFFEE background, posterized/transparent logo
Current standard subhead Plain text.	Swatch 6 FFEEEE background, posterized/transparent logo
Current standard subhead Plain text.	Swatch 7 DDFFDD background, posterized/transparent logo
Current standard subhead Plain text.	Swatch 8 FDF5E6 background, posterized/transparent logo

Mario's comments: One of the problems for the PYM News pages in converting to a colored background is the PYM News logo, which current has a white background with a big empty space in the upper left corner.

I've attempted a fix on that -- a transparent-background version (attached). The problem with transparency is anti-aliasing, and the workaround is posterizing, that is, reducing the number of colors in order to minimize the undesired halo.  Note the word "minimize."  Going to completely stark colors in order to completely knock out the background gives any antialiased image a severe case of the "jaggies" (ragged edge where the image meets the background).  In order to avoid jaggies, a certain amount of halo is unavoidable, but a minor halo is not noticeable if the background is still quite pale.

Which brings me to the other attachments -- the original PYM News logo and a test HTML page.  In the test page, I've set up a table with several "swatches" for the past versions and a couple of experiments. Put all these files in the same location and then view the HTML file.

To my eye, "swatch 5" works reasonably well.  The only problem I have with it is that the yellow "light" in the PYM logo gets lost.  That led me to try swatches 6 and 7.  Unfortunately, pink has still has some political connotations, and green ... well, to my consternation, it's hard to find many people who like green.

So, how do people feel about swatch 5?

Disclaimer -- I have not tested this on other monitors, so if it looks weird on your set up, be sure to say so.

-Mario

Rich's note: Swatch #8's color was discovered using a color utility on my Mac called Art Director's tool kit. I clicked on our logo's ivory type background and Art Directory translated it into an htm color.

It is very close to FFFFEE but I think it is closer.