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The site is sincerely refreshing. I feel like I'm walking into a calm forest, compared to the din of most any other website (HN would probably feel the same if
by spraak 8y ago
The site is sincerely refreshing. I feel like I'm walking into a calm forest, compared to the din of most any other website (HN would probably feel the same if it were dark-themed).
- nils-m-holm 8y agoThank you! I like the "calm forest" analogy!
- MaxBarraclough 8y agoI like the minimalism, but not the colour-scheme. I far prefer dark-on-light. HN itself has it about right - minimalistic and easy to read.
- nils-m-holm 8y agoThere is a reason why most sight-impaired people, at least those I know, prefer light-on-dark. A bright background blurs out the foreground and makes reading hard. Dark-on-light only makes sense when switching between paper and screen frequently. To me, dark-on-light becomes increasingly hard to read as I grow older. So much so that I have disabled CSS in my browser entirely.
- scardine 8y agoLike almost half the globe I have astigmatism: > People with astigmatism (aproximately 50% of the population) find it harder to read white text on black than black text on white. Part of this has to do with light levels: with a bright display (white background) the iris closes a bit more, decreasing the effect of the "deformed" lens; with a dark display (black background) the iris opens to receive more light and the deformation of the lens creates a much fuzzier focus at the eye. > Jason Harrison – Post Doctoral Fellow, Imager Lab Manager – Sensory Perception and Interaction Research Group, University of British Columbia > Jason Harrison – Post Doctoral Fellow, Imager Lab Manager – Sensory Perception and Interaction Research Group, University of British Columbia Borrowed from this answer in stackoverflow: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15142/which-is-easier-on-the-eyes-dark-on-light-or-light-on-dark https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15142/whic...
- nils-m-holm 8y agoLooks like this study is about people with mild vision problems. As I said before, I know some people with more limited vision (myopia with more than 10 diopters, optical nerve damage, etc), and all of them prefer light letters on dark background. Myself I can hardly read on paper or a paper-white screen. Whatever science may say, this is how I experience it! :)
- scardine 8y agoYour preference is backed by science: > However, most studies have shown that dark characters on a light background are superior to light characters on a dark background (when the refresh rate is fairly high). For example, Bauer and Cavonius (1980) found that participants were 26% more accurate in reading text when they read it with dark characters on a light background. Reference: Bauer, D., & Cavonius, C., R. (1980). Improving the legibility of visual display units through contrast reversal. In E. Grandjean, E. Vigliani (Eds.), Ergonomic Aspects of Visual Display Terminals (pp. 137-142). London: Taylor & Francis https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15142/which-is-easier-on-the-eyes-dark-on-light-or-light-on-dark https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15142/whic...
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- eggy 8y agoThese are my terminal colors. Goes back to the green on black of my Commodore PET in 1978. It works well for my aging vision.