FYI, that UX Movement article misrepresents the few studies that it actually cites and offers no evidence for its claim regarding saturation causing eye strain.

FYI, that UX Movement article misrepresents the few studies that it actually cites and offers no evidence for its claim regarding saturation causing eye strain. I know this because someone complained at me recently about a design, linked to that article, and I actually bothered to read the couple of studies it did cite. Where the UX Movement article says “saturation and brightness have a more significant impact [than hue on arousal]”, one of the studies it cites clearly states that brightness had no impact on arousal. This obvious mistake calls into doubt (for me, at least) whether the author has any objective basis for their claims. On the other hand, this study which actually looks at colour preferences of people experiencing eye strain [0] appears to show (Figure 1) that people experiencing eye strain don’t select away from green, which seems to refute fairly strongly your claim that green text causes eye strain for everybody. This study references several other studies on the effects of colour overlays so it is probably a good resource for additional research. [0] https://insights.ovid.com/optometry-vision-science/opvis/2012/07/000/chromatic-aberration-accommodation-color/16/00006324 https://insights.ovid.com/optometry-vision-science/opvis/201...