On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:06 AM, David Cogen <co...@ll.mit.edu> wrote:
> > "Lack of contrast"? Let's start with the editor window: light gray text on > dark gray background? That's low contrast, and very hard to read. My > feeling is, at least one of foreground color or background color should > almost always be full white or full black. > Highest contrast does not always translate to highest legibility. When lettering is small (as it tends to be in many developers' editor), a white font on a black background leads to lesser legibility due to overpowering background color. Out of curiosity, what point size do you use? I use Monaco, 12pt. Yellow/amber works better with smaller fonts, imho, and white works better with larger fonts. In the old days, my eyes were very happy when I got to move from a green-on-black CRT to an amber-on-black one. > Regarding your purposefully making comments less contrasty because you > find them "distracting", Shame on you! > I didn't say I made them illegible - just less contrasty :-) With 35+ years in front of monitors 8hrs/day, I'm not blind yet, so I feel I must be doing something right :-) Cheers, Tom -- tjw...@gmail.com http://landofwolf.blogspot.com/
