Post #1348917

@beandreams This is not a Windows palette, it’s the default EGA palette. Every single program released since October 1984 (which is before Windows was even released) could use them. You associate Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5x, NT 4.0, 95, 98 with specifically the combination of teal and gray because Microsoft: didn’t change it (they know how to, Windows XP boot screen changes the default palette, but it covers the most cases)used gray for interface background since buttons were usually gray, still are in elevators for example. It was also the background colour in 3.1 as @domi ‘s thumbnail showschose the colour that makes most sense from dark ones or top row (black on black won’t work, red is error, green is success, yellow is just ugly, blue is already in blue screen, purple is a bit aggressive, gray is what they changed from) Thus, you get a desktop that’s just teal and gray and hundreds of millions of people have seen it. Windows 3.1 doesn’t use this teal anywhere. The closest thing is boot screen, which is #3fa0c7 as opposed to #0aa and it displays only for a few seconds. If you were to travel back in time to 1994 and ask a random computer user with a colour monitor what colours are in Windows 3.1, their answer would be black and white, red, green, yellow and blue because of the Windows logo, gray, maybe they’d remember pink by some miracle and that’s it. If they looked at a teal-gray ribbon like that, there’s no way in hell they’d say ‘oh, it’s a Windows ribbon!’ because it doesn’t make any sense. That association only started because people were using 95 and 98 especially.