Somehow when we had only 16 colours to work with we didn’t have the worst of the designer-brain “grey on marginally different grey” eyestrain factories. High-enough contrast for accessinility was essentially guaranteed. And you could go even more restrictive for laptops with early washed out LCDs and only-shades-of-red plasma screens.
Would white-on-black cause the same problem or fix it? I’ve been curious about this kinda thing for a while, but never curious enough to research it since it’s never affected me.
I know I read at some point a light gray (which is a shade of white I guess) and a dark gray (which is a shade of black) is ideal for reading for the most people. It shouldn’t be the highest contrast pure white on pure black, but something like that is the ideal.
I recall in the CRT era, yellow-on-blue was considered the most comfortable.
I can recall always typing “COLOR 15, 1, 1:WIDTH 40” to switch from light-grey-on-black to white-on-blue when I went to program my 386, much easier to read.
Not sure how those studies map to the different properties of LCD screens.
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Somehow when we had only 16 colours to work with we didn’t have the worst of the designer-brain “grey on marginally different grey” eyestrain factories. High-enough contrast for accessinility was essentially guaranteed. And you could go even more restrictive for laptops with early washed out LCDs and only-shades-of-red plasma screens.
Full-contrast black-on-white is also a common eye strain and/or migraine trigger.
Would white-on-black cause the same problem or fix it? I’ve been curious about this kinda thing for a while, but never curious enough to research it since it’s never affected me.
I’m honestly not sure; I expect it varies from person to person. I certainly find it difficult to look at either way around.
I know I read at some point a light gray (which is a shade of white I guess) and a dark gray (which is a shade of black) is ideal for reading for the most people. It shouldn’t be the highest contrast pure white on pure black, but something like that is the ideal.
I recall in the CRT era, yellow-on-blue was considered the most comfortable.
I can recall always typing “COLOR 15, 1, 1:WIDTH 40” to switch from light-grey-on-black to white-on-blue when I went to program my 386, much easier to read.
Not sure how those studies map to the different properties of LCD screens.
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