What kind of monochrome monitor displays a brownish gray?

Answer 1

Hey guys, asker here. I would like to elaborate on the question, since it's not possible to elaborate in the question itself. I used to own a 14'' grayscale Samtron monitor, and it doesn't match any of the phopshor descriptions you can read about on the net. It was not white, not green and not amber, instead it displayed letters in a color that could be considered a warm, variation of gray with a slight brown tinge to it, so i guess calling it "tan" would be a good way to call it. I noticed that this gray was rather rancid when I first saw how color monitors displayed gray - a gray that felt colder and more vivid color - almost bluish, even though it was still monochrome. I could run Windows 95 on this monitor and even set my graphical options to 16bit (I believe), but in addition to the tan hue of its gray, it behaved a lot differently to color monitors displaying grayscale. For example, blues, reds and purples were displayed almost as black. Is that a monitor thing or is that associated with a system color setting (such as say, 256 colors?) I haven't been able to replicate this kind of monochrome on my new monitor, even though it lets you display actual monochrome if you decrease color saturation to zero. Does the kind of monochrome display I described have a specific name? And is there any possibility to simulate it via software on a color monitor (nostalgia reasons)?