"spir" <denis.s...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.2474.1299967680.4748.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > On 03/12/2011 10:16 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>> Even with a brightness >>> > setting matching the ambient light (many people I know have turned >>> > the >>> > backlight up way too high), longer blocks of white text on a dark >>> > background have the nasty habit of leaving an after-image in my eyes, >>> > as >>> > demonstrated by this site:http://www.ironicsans.com/owmyeyes/. >>> > >> That's a very poor example of light-on-dark: It's all-bold, pure-white on >> pure-black. Even light-on-dark fans don't do that. The "white" is >> normally a >> grey. > > It's very strange. What the text on this page explains, complaining about > light text on dark background, is exactly what I experience when reading > text with the opposite combination, eg PDFs. > His text holds a link that switches colors (thus suddenly displaying black > on white): this kills my eyes! I have to zap away at once. >
Yea, I have a hard time looking at that version, too. And I didn't even see it until after I was away from the page for about an hour and then came back. There are also other reasons that both versions of that page are hard to read: - All bold. - All justified (I honestly do find justified text harder to read than left-algned. And the difference is much more pronounced with narrower text columns, such as that page uses.) - One loooong paragraph.