On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am Freitag, 6. November 2015, 17:37:56 schrieb Ian: > > Originality might be important for art, but a website is a user-interface > > first, art (a distant) second. With a user interface, it is very rare > that > > doing something nobody else does is a good thing, normally there is a > good > > reason why nobody else is doing it. > > It used to be such that most programmer websites were light on > black. I trace the change of style more to the trend of more > programmers switching to Apple than to user interface research. > Actually user interface research tells us that black on white is the most readable combination (source <http://www.laurenscharff.com/research/survreslts.html>): As you can see, the most readable color combination is black text on white > background and... Also, in every color combination surveyed, the darker text on a lighter > background was rated more readable than its inverse (e.g. blue text on > white background ranked higher then white text on blue background). Ian. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
