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The eyes are more sensitive to either yellow-green or blue-green, depending on whether there is light or little of it. Amber/orange/yellow was probably the seco
by puzzle 9y ago
The eyes are more sensitive to either yellow-green or blue-green, depending on whether there is light or little of it. Amber/orange/yellow was probably the second most popular choice for terminals back then.
- cat199 9y agoon the down side, if you work on one too long, it fries those particular cones in your eyes pretty good, at least in the case of green and if the contrast is too high.. my daily driver is grey-on-black these days for that reason, though I keep a warm-and fuzzy green-on-black with vt220 font and slow-baud emulator around for the occasional one-off shell command.