On 3/12/11 11:34 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"spir"<denis.s...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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.
Oh, really? I guess there is no way this site could be a fabricated
example for clearly demonstrating the effect, right?
