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Yellow is unreadable on a screen.
by user5994461 7y ago
Yellow is unreadable on a screen.
- erik_seaberg 7y agoThey used to make amber monitors alongside green ones. Yellow on white doesn't work, but why use a white background unless you're simulating paper?
- jraph 7y agoI use both black on white and white on black. Usually, I find the latter enjoyable in the evening / night, but occasionally a bit depressing / oppressing during the day in my text editor. I guess it's also weird to have a bright room and a dark screen. But not in the terminal, where a black background always feels better for some reason. So, why use a white background? Because it may feel better, and it may have nothing to do with paper. Also, an objective reason: with black background in your text editor, it can be painful to switch to windows with a white background. If you try to set everything black background, you run into bugs: broken webpages, mails that set a white background anyway (bonus if they don't set the text color, or nothing is set but some words are highlighted or colored), documents, PDFs. I know because I tried. With support for dark themes in CSS it will probably improve but we are not there yet and you pretty much are in an unsupported territory. The question also work in the opposite way: why use a dark background? Same answer: preference. For ecological reasons? It depends on the screen, and it should be measured especially if you compensate by setting the screen brightness higher.