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Combining red and blue is visually stressful. They focus at different
lengths and therefore your eyes will be fighting to focus both colors
simultaneously. Even orange has enough long-wavelength red in it as to cause
this "3d optical illlusion" effect slighltly, against short-wavelength blues
and purples.
Niels
http://nielsmayer.com
PS: IMHO, there should be an option to put a border/bevel/inset/outset (just
regular html, no images or rounded corners) around the different panels.
Seems like Gmail has a good "look" in this regard, with simple borders that
look good, render efficient, and aren't distracting:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/four-new-themes.html . They seem to
have well-chosen contrasting colors for text areas as well -- what about
just copying some of their simpler color "themes" (the color palette, not
the exact look)?