We had the same debate. While I personally think dark on light non-white (specifically a light blue) is best, we once tested a design with white on dark blue almost black. users did not have trouble reading as long as the font was sufficiently large (we had slight negative reaction to font less than 12 on both mac and pc laptops) and did not claim it was a problem. These were short text articles (slightly longer than your 200 words) that were broken up some by insets and pictures. I believe that a longer or denser block of text may have seen different results.
Take it for what it is worth, as this was neither a statistically significant test, nor was it within your specific context. Essentially, the takeaway is that no, white on black is not a no-no. (quadruple negative?) Anecdotaly, I hate the blinding white background of the page I am typing on right now. Luckily for IxDA the content is so great I will put up with it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39974 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
