Wikipedia states the eyes of human beings revolve around the relation of color receptors in the cone cells of the eye. Color blindness is the effect of a missing receptor. The primary colors green-red-yellow contribute towards development of cornea cells in recognizing brightness of all colors. dueteranopia is the form of red-green color blindness which is mot common when eyes are note exposed to enough green. Green is the most restful to the eye out of the primary colors.
As soon as you think about green, you can make sure that you feel sedate and settled. Green is the perfect color which has just about right wavelength to please the eyes and reduce mental fatigue. At 555nm (#2F6533 – color code), A yellowish – dark green shade is the median of all wavelengths and is light-adapted eye responds to it most effectively.
Go Green is again a term that has been extensively used by political parties and non profit organizations alike in the last decade or so to spread the word about preservation, eco-friendly awareness, renewable energy sources and recycled use of natural products. In the present IT era LCD monitors are fast replacing CRT monitors in order to save the energy consumption units around the world and reduce eye strains of millions of viewers. A web page with a white background uses approximately 74 watts that compared to 59 of Black on the computer screen. All the other wavelengths fall in between and vary in power saving units.
While this difference in energy consumption is minimal when compared to individual user on a per month basis, but with more and more PCs and laptops making way into mankind in this century, A general protocol across all the users across the world can create a significant saving in terms of energy watts used by the monitors and display devices. While Blackle and envirogle moved to black theme for search websites, Officialiwant.com and Greenmaven sites have opted for green theme to not only save PC power but also viewers eyes and provide healing experience for its viewers
Google according to a previous report on digg.com in Feb 2009 stated that the market share of search is distributed as 78% in its favour , while 14% with yahoo, 5% with MSN and the rest for all other search giants. The reason for an 8% rise in last 6 months, according to experts, is that Environment friendly searches are on a rise and sites like Blackle Officialiwant Envirogle and Greenmaven have all opted for a color theme to save energy watts and created awareness about using the right display options. This indirectly benefited google because all of these theme sites are partners of google custom search and go for a no-advertisement homepage to create brand value and stamp market authority of google.
Well we at Nelson IT college have opted for Green theme like many other educational institutes around the globe and support officialiwant.com as our moral responsibility. If nothing more , the effort and time put by the OIW green team to come up with the right wavelength color codes and combinations (#2F6533) deserves a pat on the back. The Try and see for yourselves approach of OIW has worked a treat and produces trustworthy results. You can use http://www.officialiwant.com search for 5 minutes and switch to any other search engine to feel the difference on your own. Go Green Today!
