This topic was an area of active research in the 1970s and 1980s with early monitors. Some of this is reported in classic human factors textbooks I believe as well as early books on "ergonomics of VDTs (or VDUs - visual display units). You might also want to look in the Human Factors and Ergonomics journal database and check on more recent research in this area.
Chauncey On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:26 PM, yunlingl @ gmail. com <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > There's a debate in our team on whether we should use dark or white > background when displaying texts (say around 200 words). > > Not considering the fonts, font size, and color contrast, I found > myself feel more comfortable to read texts on dark background for > longer period time on screen. Some posts I found on web (such as > http://my.opera.com/Vorlath/blog/show.dml/283240) also state print > media and computer screen are different. Computer screen itself > outputs lights and thus white background can be blinding. However, > most of the news site and even the IXDA forum is still using white > background. Is this just a convention or has some scientific reasons > behind it? > > -Yun-Ling > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
