I prefer a dark blue* background to black, but either one is quite easy on the eyes even in a brightly lit room. I find that for my preferences, bright backgrounds "bloom" too much after looking at them for a while. The primary problem I have with many GUI visuals is that the font character strokes are often only one pixel wide, and that causes them to almost scintillate at times.
* Too much time in DOS WordPerfect years ago, I guess... :-)) -- Len Philpot <>< Java: 10 years old & still crawling... <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,41798,41834> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
