Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Colour blindness & the Linux Kernel Version History | Date | Sat, 16 Oct 1999 21:24:41 -0400 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <38092299.B64282A6@kalifornia.com>, David Ford writes: +----- | Audin Malmin wrote: | > Arrgh... Why does everyone insist on bright backgrounds? A | > CRT is not a piece of paper, it's an illuminated display, bright | > backgrounds just mean that everyone has to squint to read it... The | | because it's proven that reading black text on a white background is easier o | n the | human eye than white text on a black background. ask your local opthamalogis | t or | etc. +--->8
True only when the white background is passive, such as a printed page. I don't know if any conclusive studies have been done regarding CRTs, but the standard rule doesn't seem to hold all that well... mainly because while it works if you turn down the brightness enough, you then can't see low-contrast stuff very well (and if you turn up the contrast, the white becomes too bright again).
-- brandon s. allbery os/2,linux,solaris,perl allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator kthkrb,heimdal,gnome,rt allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering kf8nh We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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