[rbanffy]

The thing I liked most in the NeXT was the sparing use of color. It was part necessity, but also usability. What does the color of the window bar being blue communicate?

I am an enthusiast for Gnome’s less is more approach.

[ahoka]

Original NeXT was monochrome, so of course it used no significant colors in the UI.

[teddyh]

The original NeXTcube was 4-bit grayscale, but there was a graphics card available which supported 24-bit colour. The later NeXTstations supported 12-bit colours without any additional hardware.

[rbanffy]

> was 4-bit grayscale

Small nitpick: it was 2-bit and could do two greys in addition to black and white.

[teddyh]

Thank you. I actually knew that; I was thinking “4 shades”, and then wrote “4-bit” by mistake.