random thought: for people who have never used an oscilloscope (or at least never used a digital one), if you had to pick four colors for four scope channels to be, which four would you pick, and what order would you put them in?
(bear in mind that most oscilloscopes use a black background. but if you want to pick some light-theme colors too go right ahead!)
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re: what our scope uses
(well, I say everyone--I didn't look at Yokogawa, Rohde & Schwarz, Siglent, Rigol, or any of the other ones out there)
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@Felthry I don't know if this is a good UI answer, but green, white, amber, blue would be kinda funny.
@starkatt Why funny?
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@Felthry crt phosphor colors.
@starkatt Oh! I was thinking that, but we've never seen a blue phosphor CRT.
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@Felthry monochrome mode: solid, dashed, dotted, dash-dotted
multicolor mode: white, red, blue, purple
(red/blue is the most widely perceptible color contrast, and purple as the third avoids having both green and red)
selected line is drawn slightly thicker
(we've only ever used an analog oscilloscope)
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@packbat we've seen monochrome scopes, but never one that made an effort to distinguish the channels (and selected channel is always just shown by lights on the physical interface)
I feel like having dashed lines or drawing the line thicker would be more of a problem than it would be helpful, as it could miss things that happen quickly
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@Felthry oh, that's a point
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what our scope uses
the scope we use at work (a LeCroy WS4104HD) uses yellow, a sort of pinkish desaturated red, cyan, and green in that order, so that's kinda what we're used to
Tektronix and Keysight use the same colors, but in a different order (yellow, green, blue, red for Keysight; yellow, blue, red, green for Tektronix)
yellow seems to be the one everyone uses first for some reason
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