On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 09:19:41 -0600, John McKown wrote:

>On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Tony's Basement Computer wrote:
>>
>> "black on white is good, blue on gray is bad"
>> 
And complementary colors of equal brightness are utterly jarring.
Avoid the combination.  In fact, design for a monochromatic
viewer.  It's clear in my memory when I used monochrome
terminals.

>​Total agreement. Luckily for me, Chrome allows me to override the CSS with
>a better style, with more contrast. Some numb skull had cyan on blue.​ As
>bad as one Windows user, many years ago, who said she had an unreadable
>"blue screen". And indeed she did. She actually changed the screen colors
>to blue characters on blue background.
> 
And I tried saturated red (ff,00,00) warning text on a white background.
I decided that was grotesque and dropped back to about (c0,00,00).

-- gil

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