in reply to go green by going black

I actually have a hard time reading a screen that is light characters on a dark background. I'm not sure why that is, but whenever I try to flip it from my preferred black-on-near-white, it just doesn't scan in my head as well.

So, to quote the words of that immortal muppet philosopher... "It's not that easy, being green...".

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re^2: go green by going black
by zentara (Cardinal) on Jul 29, 2007 at 12:01 UTC
    White letters on black is hard on my eyes too. I have the text foreground, set to a shade of burnt-orange-yellow, which stands out nicely from the black, but the contrast is muted so it's easier to visually grab. The only white entities I see, are empty checkboxes, and they burn my eyes when I stare at them. My links are lightblue and purple.

    The white on black problem must come from the high frequency edges of the transition from high levels of photons(white) to no photons( pure black ).

    I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum
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      The only white entities I see, are empty checkboxes, and they burn my eyes when I stare at them

      Bloody annoying, isn't it. (They burn my eyes, irrespective of whether I stare at them.) Is there nothing that can be done to remedy this ?

      Cheers,
      Rob
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        I'm selling "checkbox filtering sunglasses" on ebay..... mention your perlmonks name, and get a 20% discount.

        Also available is my award-winning behavioral modification script, which trains you to avoid looking at white checkboxes. ;-)

        I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum
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Re^2: go green by going black
by belg4mit (Prior) on Sep 11, 2007 at 20:39 UTC
    Have you tried wheat on (midnight)blue? It seems to work well in that there isn't ulra-high contrast, but it is certainly paler than black on white. I wonder if the fact that one channel (B) is then being mostly used for the background (augmented by physiological quirks), and the others (R&G) are being used for the foreground has anything to do with legibility.

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