Le Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:17:15 +0100, Vicent <vgi...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> Hello everyone. [...] > As you can see there, I prefer a black background, so I've changed colors a > little. My second question is: do you know any kind of recomended (I mean, > optimized for a good working experience, good for eyes health, etc.) color > palette or color combination with black background? > > Thank you in advance. I have long talked about that with a web designer who is particuliarly aware of user comfort in relation to colors, brightness, etc. What I remember is the following rules about what factors make reading/watching harmful, difficult and/or tiring: -1- overall brightness --> white background forbidden -2- difficulty to read or distingush shapes (e.g. too small or badly designed fonts) -3- physical effects of low quality monitors -4- too low (rule -2-) or too high (rule -1-) contrast In addition to that, a basic rule of graphical design in any domain is that too many colors or styles -- as usually done in standard syntax highlighting -- rather prevents readibility that helps it. There should be some research done on this topic. After all, it's a relevant aspect of all programmers' everyday life, no? I'm rather sure that for most PLs, a combination of 3 to 5 colors, and bold/italics properties given to only 1 or 2 token types is optimal. I haven't yet found a style sheet to be really happy with, nevertheless. Now, for a language that becomes more and more complex like python... maybe it will be easier with py3 ;-) denis ------ la vida e estranya _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
