When I've worked in certain offices where the majority of people liked
to keep the lights low or off all the time - I felt the same fatigue -
esp. if I was coding or writing (black text on white background).
Generally the practice we used to reduce this fatigue was to invert
the contrast - by which I mean kick it old-school with black
backgrounds and light grey or green text for text editing.
Photographers and other visual media editors long ago found that they
were better able to focus on the stuff they were working on when all
their backgrounds, tools, palettes etc. were a neutral dark grey. This
helped the in-focus items stand out, and not get confused w/ a
colorful or splashy/flashy UI. This is basically the standard now for
media editors - dark backgrounds w/ light text/icons etc.
Brandon E. B. Ward
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On Sep 22, 2009, at 8:03 AM, Rutger van Dijk wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for some best practices or guidelines for color schemes
used in our port management system at night or in low light
conditions.
At our company we have shift workers on vessels in the harbour, who
also work at night. Having to look at bright coloured, high contrast
screens all night is more tiring than we expected.
Is it common to introduce a 'night color scheme' which is more easy
to read or look at ?
And how would a standard 'night' theme look like ?
With regards,
Rutger van Dijk
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