Choosing a color scheme for use in a yellow light environment

[allison 41]

I finished developing a lovely, eye-pleasing user interface for troubleshooting & monitoring one of our products. So lovely in fact that our customer is wishing to use it at their facility as well. Problem is, when I went to try it out with them I realized it will be used in their clean room, where the lighting is yellow & dim. My lovely gray-scale interface was suddenly very difficult to view & thus confusing to use. So I want to add some color to the various buttons, graphs, indicators, controls, etc., to make the thing easier to view in dim yellow lighting. But I wont be able to preview what it will look like in their cleanroom before I need to be finished making any changes. Any ideas
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-Allison

[Rob Cole]

Cover your screen with yellow cellophane.

Or you could use only high contrast combinations. Black on white is high contrast. Light colours on dark colours or vice versa.

Have fun with it and tell us if you come up with something interesting.

Rob

[Anthony_de_Vries]

Working in a yellow lighted cleanroom, I noticed that you cannot distinguish between white and yellow. While you would expect everything looks rather yellow, actually the brain compensates, and it appears as if all you see is _lacking_ yellow. (At least, that how it's with me)
So to get a picture of how the screen looks like, you have to remove the yellow component from your colors. I guess that's easier in CMYK mode in Photoshop, than in RGB...

I think the blue-gray default colorscheme of windows is pretty good for this environment.