>>>Lovely color, thanks for it! I'm going to use it in my UI. IMO, there is no ugly color.
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>>De gustibus non est disputandum.
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>Exactly, so you cannot say that a color is ugly, you just didn't like the color.

Oh, I can say it's ugly, assuming that everyone knows that it's just my opinion - what else can it be? I surely don't expect anyone to take my aesthetical judgment for granted :).

>>>OTOH, I read in a magazine that there is an organization (Color Marketing Group Consultants Bureau) that defines color trends for each year, for everything, and that everybody that makes consumer goods (paints, houses, cars, bathroom racks,...) listens to what they say. IIRC the forecasts are done by about 2000 experts from around the world. Now, how come we, in the IT, are still looking for legitimacy, but color experts don't?
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>>They have achieved the dictatorship status. We haven't.
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>Even more so, how is it possible to not only have legitimacy, but even dictate in something that is ipso facto "non disputandum", and then, have a legitimacy problem in IT!?

They have as much legitimacy as the proscribers of the skirt length for the season. If the industry will follow, they've proven their power. If not, they have no legitimacy. IOW, they seem to be yet another service created by corporations to serve a specific need - simply because nobody wants to produce anything in demodé colors, because they think it won't sell. I had a TV broke a month ago, and decided that it isn't worth fixing, so went out to buy one. There were about 20 TVs on display, and guess what - they were all metallic gray. Looked like a shop back home 40 years ago - there's one style to choose from, take it or leave it.

Now if IT industry tried to enforce fashion rules, saying "all command buttons shall be rounded for 2006, and all radio buttons will look like slanted checkboxes", and created a similar body - I think even M$ would have to obey. Except that nobody's that crazy :).