John, I'm keeping all written below because I never delete my "sent" mail and I want the infor there... :)
I agree on several points with you about dark backgrounds, especially for color images... I think they look better often, the black background is definitely easier on MY eyes, and your point about using less power to display is interesting - I just never thought of it... A different matter in print altogether. I have my default colors on my computer set so that most things I look at (like this mail I'm writing now and the background in photoshop and Word ) is a slightly bluish gray... just about anything but white works for me... One of the things I liked about smugmug was their carbonite theme display I use in almost all the galleries I have there. Glad Wheatfield clued us in on why your grays turned to electric blue. I read this email of yours before I saw the other ones you had written on the subject, I did look at those two htmls you sent . sometimes cyberspace can be sooo annoying! ann John Celio wrote: (quoting Bob W in this passage...) >>However, it doesn't really matter about the difference, and it's not >>Ann's eyes that are at fault. The important thing is that you're using >>one of the combinations that every design guide recommends against >>because of its inherent illegibility. In general it's a better idea to >>have dark text against a lighter background. Think about the number of >>books and magazines you see with black pages and light print, and ask >>yourself if you'd want to read something printed like that. >> >> > >I've found I much prefer dark backgrounds to light ones, but perhaps I have >somewhat sensitive eyes. I have read that white on black can be hard on the >eyes, but I did make my text a gray tone to make it less contrasty, and I >think that helps a lot. ffffff on 000000 is really hard to look at, I >agree. > >There are two main reasons I chose black as my background color: > >1. Photos tend to look better on a dark background when shown on the >internet (IMHO). There's less glare around the image to screw with the >apparent presentation of the photo. I also picked gray tones for my text >and links to reduce glare. Photos often look very different (to my eyes) >between my dark website and my bright livejournal, which has a white >background. > >2. Darker websites use less monitor power to display than bright ones, so >it's a tiny contribution towards reducing power consumption and, thus, >climate change. May sound silly, but it means something to me. > >Anyone have any ideas about why my lovely gray colors aren't showing up >properly in Firefox? > >John > >-- >http://www.neovenator.com >http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
