On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 09:02:10AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > On Friday, February 02, 2018 09:30:10 PM Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 06:10:57PM +0000, Alexander Ross wrote: > > > Re Webpage background, heh yea im the opposite, i find it harder to read > > > a white/light background. saying that my email client is set to use > > > light blue... lately ive been using owl firefox addon[1] for changing > > > websites themes to a dark one. found it to give me relief from eye > > > strain :). > > > > I prefer light text on a dark background. Especially at night, when the > > screen otherwise becomes glaringly bright. It also reduces flicker on > > slow-refresh monitors. > > > > And as for the letter-thinning you experience with white text -- that's > > exactly what I perceive with white text! I think it is an effect of > > slight lack of focus. with a bright background it eaats into the letter > > shapes, but if the shapes become a little blurry they are still quie > > readable. > > > > I son't understand how the opposite effect which you report arises. > > I guess you mean why I see that thinning effect with light text on a dark > background? Interesting. > > I guess it could be: > * our eyes trained differently > * our eyes function differently--I have astigmatism, but it is corrected > by > my glasses so I don't think that is a factor > * different tools on our computers render the fonts differently? (I'm not > sure I know what, in the end, actually renders the fonts on my computer--is > it > X (assuming my Wheezy installation is using X), or is it different for > different > apps? > > I did find a bug report not too long ago for some application which actually > confirmed the bias I described, and described how that worked (in general > terms)--I'll make a cursory search or try to remember where I found that, > and, > if I do, I'll post it here. > > Of course, the one URL which Florian posted did provide some reasons why dark > text on a light background is generallly better for your eyes (iirc the > article). > > https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/53264/dark-or-white-color-theme-is- > better-for-the-eyes#
It argues that with more light the eye has more information to use to focus properly. But if focus isn't proper for whatever reason, I think white letters becoming blurry are more readable than white background invading the thin black lines. I discovered this long ago in the days of fuzzy CRTs. I wonder what physical media those experiments werre carried out with. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
