* On 08 Oct 2009, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Thu 08 Oct 2009 at 02:14:32 PDT Michael wrote: > > > >Black on white for me. Getting old and white on black is hard for my eyes. > > Good to know I'm not the only one! I read somewhere that when your eyes > get older, they have more difficulty picking out the subtle differences > between light shapes on a dark background. I know that's true for me. > When I was younger, I did all my programming with the lights out and a > black background to my screens. If I try that now, I find I have a hard > time focusing and keeping track of which line I'm on. No such problems > when I use a light background.
I certainly like my books printed dark on light, but screens are a different matter: light emission, not light reflection. I find that I can get more legible contrast from light text on dark background than from dark on light, after taking into account the range of ANSI colors that I want to read (which generally aren't part of book-reading, either.) I use #b8b8d8 on #282840 for mutt. High contrast is very hard on my eyes whether it's b-w or w-b. -- -D. d...@uchicago.edu NSIT University of Chicago
