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Ugh. Dark themes. Can't get used to them. Fine for general terminal use, but impossible for me for larger amounts of text. Can't really articulate why, but it's

• crazygringo 8y ago
  There's lots of research showing that people read black-on-white body text significantly more accurately/faster (around 25-30%), so that's normal.
  • anotheryou 8y ago
    probably because people are used to that though, no?
    • crazygringo 8y ago
      I'm not sure anyone's 100% sure, but from what I've read the leading hypothesis is that white light spreads in the retina and is more sensitive to lens distortions (and the pupil is larger when looking at a black screen, so even more distortion). So white letters essentially smudge more in the eye against each other and require more work to decipher, while black letters don't. (White light surrounding black letters could make them "shrink" with the same effect, but this doesn't seem to harm legibility.) Which is also why it's more relevant to body text, as opposed to display text which is larger and thus less susceptible to the problem.
• saalweachter 8y ago
  I actually keep my Kindle white-on-black.
  • alexgmcm 8y ago
    How can you change the setting? Everything I looked at says it's not possible.. unless you mean the Kindle Fire?