On 13 Mar 2009, at 07:01, Jesse wrote:
We had the same debate. While I personally think dark on light non-white (specifically a light blue) is best, we once tested a design with white on dark blue almost black. users did not have trouble reading as long as the font was sufficiently large (we had slight negative reaction to font less than 12 on both mac and pc laptops) and did not claim it was a problem. These were short text articles (slightly longer than your 200 words) that were broken up some by insets and pictures. I believe that a longer or denser block of text may have seen different results.
There's also the problem that the expressed user preference may not actually reflect user performance (if the latter is what you care about.)
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