Color Names

Gameboy Contrast

Original Game Boy screen, before backlighting, where Tetris blocks emerged from the dark.

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Gameboy Contrast is a deep green.

It can be described as deep, rich, dark and dim.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Gameboy Contrast

Game Boy

The Game Boy is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on April 21, 1989, followed by North America on July 31, 1989 and Europe on September 28, 1990. Nintendo's first handheld to use ROM cartridges, it succeeded the Game & Watch line of handheld electronic games and competed with Sega's Game Gear, Atari's Lynx, and NEC's TurboExpress in the fourth generation of video game consoles.

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Contrast (vision)

Contrast is the difference in luminance or color that makes an object distinguishable from a background. Human vision is more sensitive to relative differences than to absolute luminance, so perceived appearance can remain fairly stable despite large changes in illumination.

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contrast

Noun

  1. A difference in lightness, brightness or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.

Verb

  1. To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between; to counterpoint.
  2. To form a contrast.
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