On Aug 24 2001, 13:24 +0000, guran wrote:
> On Friday 24 August 2001 12:45, Pixel wrote:
> > Andreas Voegele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > And haven't studies shown that using a light background with dark
> > > letters is better than using a dark background with light letters?  
> >
> > i don't know if studies do say so.
> >
> >From a search on Google on "research readability" i found
> 
> http://www.beta-research.com/standards.html  from which I selected
> 
> Yale C-AIM WWW Style Manual , thus at 
> 
> http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/graphics/backgrounds.html
> 
> I get:
> 
> 
> Background colors and legibility
> ... 
> Black text on a white (or very light gray) background yields the best overall 
> type contrast and legibility. Studies have shown the black backgrounds are 
> significantly less legible than white backgrounds, even when white type is 
> used (for maximum contrast).
---tom:--- 

And _which_ studies are _they_ referring to? ;-) You've just set the
problem one step back.

tom

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