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Color of on/off button?
patrickl:
The Wii on/off button is red when off and green when on (and I think orange when it is in "standby").
bfauska:
Sounds like you'll get fairly consistant results for this question. I agree that most of my purchased electronics with lights on or near the power button are green when on and red/amber when off. I do see where you are coming from with the idea that red is the stop button and green is the go button, but maybe the best solution is a power symbol and conventional colors.
Spaz Monkey:
My PS2 has blue for standby and green for power.
superbigjay:
I would go with this color code:
fushia when OFF
brown when ON.
The fushia will bring all the green of the timesink and brown is the first color that comes to mind when you say ON :laugh2:
Since your cab is green, I would go with
ON : GREEN
OFF: Yellow
(These are the colors of my Dell power button)
Cheers
Jay :cheers:
theCoder:
--- Quote from: bfauska on September 23, 2007, 01:07:44 pm ---...but maybe the best solution is a power symbol and conventional colors.
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Something like this? I forgot to mention the light will pulsate.
So the consensus seems to be the light is the machine state, not the function. This is in line with my experience with production equipment, but the other seems more appropriate for the Nintendo generation.
So... pulsing green when the cab is on, pulsing red (or blue or brown, I kinda like blue) when the cab is off.