>The Interface Hall of Shame (http://www.iarchitect.com/shame.htm) warns about any sort of hard-coded colors for a couple of reasons: 1) in other cultures, peoples' mental color associations are different and 2) some people have different types of color-blindness.

Man, I was going to mention that and forgot. It does go to show that you need to be aware of who the users are prior to moving away from any standards. Good point.

>That site has a lot to say about many aspects of interface design. Under the section about pointless error messages, you'll find a strange one that vfp3 gave me some time ago.
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>I thought of sending them this thread and inviting comment. That doesn't mean that they are "the interface police".