White on black

Mike Hankey

It messes with my eyes real bad also. I'm with Walt just click the x in the corner of the tab.

Oakman

I wouldn't do that. On the site I am designing it's white text against a starry night sky background. {grin} The problem with white on black is that it is almost too contrasty. Not as bad as yellow on black but still painful to some. The trick is to tone down the contrast and, instead of white, use a very pale gray. take a look at this list[^] if you're interested in color theory.

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Mike Hankey

Interesting referencing a Hooker, starry night background? hmmm :)

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Steve Mayfield

Ctrl-A is your friend :thumbsup:

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Oakman

she love you longtime, GI

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Mike Hankey

:laugh: :laugh: Haven't heard that in a while.

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GregStevens

Ben Breeg wrote:

Light on dark seems rather counter-intuitive to me considering the majority of books use dark on light.

Back when I was a programmer in Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville back in those days, computer monitors were lit up by vacuum tubes powered by little steam engines. Each of the pixels took a decipascal of steam pressure to power it. A decipascal is what we called a barad in those days, when measuring steam pressure. That's why we programmed in Pascal, back then, as well. Anyway, as I was saying, each pixel took a decipascal of pressure, so you had to keep most of the pixels black most of the time to save on energy. Energy was scarce, because of the war. So that's why back then, most monitors were all black with white text. But it was ok, because we had monitors with little switches to change the text to AMBER. That was always a lot of fun.

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Dario Solera

I always prefer black on white, but I don't find the opposite that bad. I also think that a dark background used to be better for eyes with CRT monitors as they emitted less radiation. Now with LCDs it's a matter of more or less light, so I guess it really depends on one's preferences.

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OriginalGriff

You were lucky! We used the Imperial measurements, so instead of decipascals we had nartrof units, and were only allowed 80 to a line. We had to save even more energy, so ours were Green on Black - with no switch for amber. And text was all we got: graphics used more pixels so we couldn't afford to run them...

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Gary R Wheeler

In this case, the color scheme annoys me a lot less than the tiny default font size in both sites.

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wizardzz

I think it looks good on a mobile device though (less glare).

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