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There's a lot to discuss here. I personally cannot read through light-on-dark digital designs. After a few lines everything blurs. With dark-on-light on the opp
by yuchi 14y ago
There's a lot to discuss here. I personally cannot read through light-on-dark digital designs. After a few lines everything blurs. With dark-on-light on the opposite I can read for hours.
Most probably is due to a non-optimal screen both at home and work-place, but I suffer from the same issue even on 2010 iMacs.
But the most pleasant scheme for me (I mean, my eyes) is light-gray-on-dark-gray.
- chewxy 14y agoIt's the contrast between the text/content and the background that affects your comfort though. There was an article about how you should never use black for your text on a white bg[0]. I think the points there are rather salient. In fact the W3C has a good calculator for colour contrast [1], which I think is a good guide for calculating colour contrast when designing sites [0]http://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/ http://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/ [1]http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#contrast-ratiodef http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#contrast-ratiodef
- kyberias 14y agoI think there are no points in [0] what so ever to support the claim than one should not use black (#000). The author does not argue at all. All he does is present a photo he has taken which does not have black pixels. What the hell is that supposed to prove?
- yuchi 14y agoI should redirect you to the interesting discussion happened on Ian's article here on HN. About eye stress.. that's another story. Could anyone here point us to a scientific paper out there?