On 10/14/10 12:35 PM, FlexibleLearning wrote:
As for light grey on dark grey, I find it much less abbrasive on the eye than "black on white" for a user interface but I would not want to read a book using it. My current app development uses such a color scheme and reports so far are positive.
I'm sure that's the case, since so many companies are doing it. I'd think they wouldn't have made the decision without user feedback, so I guess it must work for a lot of people. I don't deny the initial impact is elegant, it looks very slick.
But if your vision isn't perfect, it's horrible. I don't think user studies included many people with imperfect vision. Or else they decided to sacrifice those people in favor of the rest of the normal population.
Length of display also matters. In LiveCode's installer it doesn't bother me much because the installer is only on screen a brief period of time and I'm willing to squint to get through it because it's short. Photoshop's all-encompassing grey color scheme drives me crazy because it is always there for as long as I am using the program. After half an hour or so, my eyes start to tear. To complicate things, as monitor resolutions get larger, everything on screen gets smaller, which exacerbates the problem with grey text. Grey text just isn't as sharp as black text on white. For grey on grey, I need the text to be about 20 points or so on my current monitor. I can deal with black text on white at much smaller point sizes.
I agree with you that the lawsuit won't succeed -- and I suspect it won't even be filed. It was more a complaint by the customer than anything else. (And just to re-clarify, I'm not talking about RR, it's a different company.)
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