Obviously light gray or bright yellow on white is not what I was advocating but either of those text colors on a very dark one look mighty fine AFAIC. Now, I've looked up diurnal like a good nerd should (and saw that it was blatantly apparent from context after the fact)... and I guess this isn't as much of a no-brainer as it seems. Obviously people are different and maybe average human beings are predominantly aroused during the daytime however... (I'm sorry if this all sounds too stereotypical but it is such because it is true in many cases) a large percentage of coders and a larger percentage of hackers (ie. $japh x 65535) find their productivity and concentration increase when undisturbed within the stillness of night. I used to work for a lame web hosting company and it was impossible to code anything really useful during the day... intercom page-alls every couple of minutes about sports scores or somebody on line 7... then you've got people who need you to help them with their computer because it needs a file cleanup on drive c: every couple of seconds or their mouse isn't working properly (needs to be cleaned) and they're afraid of breaking it or touching the wrong keys and watching the puter blow up. It wasn't the ideal situation and it was pretty sad that I was their only coder and also the most informed employee regarding hardware configuration/repair issues (not that I know very much about anything other than cutting edge gaming hardware) ... long story short ...