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MisterB:
I am working on my CP overlay, and am planning on adding a colored glow around each of my buttons, which are black, to set them off from a dark background.  I'm sure there will be some debate about this, but if each of my 7 buttons were to be highlighted in a different color, what should those colors be, and which buttons should be those colors?  I know that Neo-Geo systems had a different color each of the 4 buttons, but how about the remaining 3?

Any help is much appreciated.

Sephroth57:
personally i think multicolored button control layouts look ugly and like they were made from spare parts. i think each players button set should be 1 color. thats my opinion

MisterB:
I completely agree - the multicolor buttons look pretty cheesy.  I am using black buttons, but I would like to put a faint colored glow around each button in the control panel overlay.

rdagger:
How are you going to get a glow around the black buttons?
I tried inserting a super bright led into a black push button to see if I could get any outline around the button.  No luck, the black buttons are complete opaque (even when pressed, no light escapes from edges).

MisterB:
I guess I wasn't very clear in explaining this...The "glow" effect will be printed on the overlay, just emanating a color around the edge of the black buttons.  This will allow the black buttons to stand out a bit against the black background of the overlay.

Does nobody have an opinion on button colors?  Can anyone at least remind me of what the Neo-Geo colors are?

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