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> But I may be kidding myself. Luckily there's no requirement to justify a personal preference. I hate staring at LEDs/monitors without a warm filter even if i

by Lammy 5y ago

> But I may be kidding myself. Luckily there's no requirement to justify a personal preference. I hate staring at LEDs/monitors without a warm filter even if it isn't hurting my eyes.

bscphil 5y ago
Most screens are too blue. Not in a personal preference sense, in an objective sense. That's why monitor profiling and color correction are important. Similar to you, I find it grating to use most screens for a long period of time, but I think the better solution to that problem is just to profile your screens.
- ketzo 5y ago
  Our of curiosity, how would I do that? Or is this just something I should look up?
  - baq 5y ago
    The easiest way is to pay a professional. Hardware required to properly calibrate a display is too expensive to make any sense to buy it unless you don’t care about money. You won’t get great results by downloading profiles from the internet because every unit is different coming out of factory.
  - Ieghaehia9 5y ago
    If you want to do it yourself, you'd get a colorimeter or spectrometer and then software that lets you use them to adjust your screen, like ArgyllCMS and DispcalGUI: https://displaycal.net/ https://displaycal.net/ There's a list of hardware supported by Displaycal here: https://displaycal.net/#instruments https://displaycal.net/#instruments
- rini17 5y ago
  For me it's ok to just set the color temperature to warm. But then I have to adjust all kinds of text highlighting color schemes which use pure blue for important text. These get too dim to read comfortably.
acjohnson55 5y ago
Same here. Can't go back, won't go back.
smoldesu 5y ago
Have you considered alternatively switching to a warmer colorscheme like Gruvbox in your main apps? That way only the UI elements are warm while your video and other important windows remain unafflicted.
- Lammy 5y ago
  It's not just displays since LED is so pervasive for all types of lighting these days. The tail lights on modern cars are the absolute worst offenders to me when I'm driving at night. Wearing my yellow-tinted glasses is the only way to make it bearable.

by Lammy 5y ago

> But I may be kidding myself. Luckily there's no requirement to justify a personal preference. I hate staring at LEDs/monitors without a warm filter even if it isn't hurting my eyes.

bscphil 5y ago

Most screens are too blue. Not in a personal preference sense, in an objective sense. That's why monitor profiling and color correction are important. Similar to you, I find it grating to use most screens for a long period of time, but I think the better solution to that problem is just to profile your screens.

ketzo 5y ago
Our of curiosity, how would I do that? Or is this just something I should look up?
- baq 5y ago
  The easiest way is to pay a professional. Hardware required to properly calibrate a display is too expensive to make any sense to buy it unless you don’t care about money. You won’t get great results by downloading profiles from the internet because every unit is different coming out of factory.
- Ieghaehia9 5y ago
  If you want to do it yourself, you'd get a colorimeter or spectrometer and then software that lets you use them to adjust your screen, like ArgyllCMS and DispcalGUI: https://displaycal.net/ https://displaycal.net/ There's a list of hardware supported by Displaycal here: https://displaycal.net/#instruments https://displaycal.net/#instruments
rini17 5y ago
For me it's ok to just set the color temperature to warm. But then I have to adjust all kinds of text highlighting color schemes which use pure blue for important text. These get too dim to read comfortably.

acjohnson55 5y ago

Same here. Can't go back, won't go back.

smoldesu 5y ago

Have you considered alternatively switching to a warmer colorscheme like Gruvbox in your main apps? That way only the UI elements are warm while your video and other important windows remain unafflicted.

Lammy 5y ago
It's not just displays since LED is so pervasive for all types of lighting these days. The tail lights on modern cars are the absolute worst offenders to me when I'm driving at night. Wearing my yellow-tinted glasses is the only way to make it bearable.