If you're looking at code on a white background and experience any discomfort, turn down the brightness. Don't look at code on a white background, a blue backg

If you're looking at code on a white background and experience any discomfort, turn down the brightness. Don't look at code on a white background, a blue background, or in the "haphazard mix of neon and muddy colors on a black background" color scheme for 16 hours a day. Editing code is a completely different application from editing images, watching video, or playing games. On my work box, I'm simply not concerned with "evenly discernible relative shading differences at all levels of brightness", so I run a a pair of ViewSonics at 70% contrast and 75% brightness in a well-lit room. I don't experience any level of discomfort from white editor windows; the only problem I ever experience is shifting back and forth between dark-on-light and light-on-dark windows.