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I have never understood this. Black text on white backgrounds is fine at night, maybe you should stare at screens more or something? Or use something that adjus
by pdntspa 3y ago
I have never understood this. Black text on white backgrounds is fine at night, maybe you should stare at screens more or something? Or use something that adjusts brightness to ambient light, like most phones do now. I personally do not like all this low-contrast nonsense, clear and legible is the way to go.
- yoyohello13 3y agoI think the comfortability of contrast is subjective. I have several coworkers who use higher contrasts themes and swear by them, but my eyes start to hurt if I look at content that’s too high contrast. White text on black is by far the worst for me, but I know people who find that very readable.
- pdntspa 3y agoComputers have been high-contrast since the first GUIs dating all the way back to Xerox PARC (https://crm.org/articles/xerox-parc-and-the-origins-of-gui https://crm.org/articles/xerox-parc-and-the-origins-of-gui) Yet I have only ever heard of people complaining about it recently, when GUI designed started debasing itself by making everything web-based, and zoomers started demanding dark mode everywhere. Before that, and in my lifetime of computer nerditry dating back to the mid-90s (on self-luminescent CRTs!), I have never heard of people intentionally turning down the brightness or complaining about contrast of anything, whether its a tube TV or computer screen. Which makes this whole preference for low-contrast incredibly suspicious. Like it was another one of those learned 'ailments' that spread around society like a shitty meme.
- yoyohello13 3y agoOk, well. Sorry my preferences disturb you so.