doesn't matter to me.
Are light color schemes really better for your eyes?
Josiah Long
Alexander Parker
This'
I've been programming for 15+ years and always used the default visual studio theme
Noah Green
For filtering out retards, every little bit of complexity helps
Owen King
bump for interest
Joseph Morgan
There is the result of what my searches:
Black text on white background: It's far better for reading. If you read books, you don't have to "rewire" your brain each time you switch.
BUT the major problem is the blue light coming out of the screen. It literally destroys your sleep cycle, since your inner clock is actually calibrated by your eyes, through blue light. Moreover, the skin actually reacts to blue light.
However, we still don't know what are the real effect of screens on eyes. There is literally, in my home country, an epidemic of myopia. The current scientific literature is actually saying that light coming out of screens actually encourage the formation of myopia. But who knows, what we will unveil in the future about the true nature of this.
To conclude: Blue light (and i'm pretty sur you can generalise at light from screens) is dangerous for yourself. But It's far better to read black text on white background. The solution is to use redshift, with overkilled configuration to make your monitor as orange as possible in the evening. And to use your computer far less. The other solution is to still use redshift, but with white text on black background. I personally read a lot, so I don't want to do the switch, but if you don't care, I would say that for your own health sake, try to emit as low light from your screen as possible. And so use black background with white text.
Evan Wood
And btw, don't buy in the yellow glasses bullshit. They don't cut the whole blue spectrum (something like 30%), so it's useless. It's just a huge business, as the whole glasses business is.
Samuel James
What? Look:
* Books reflect light thus the black paper will be even grayer than black on an LCD Monitor
=>black on white is cheaper and more readable
* Monitors emit light
=>white on black may be cheaper (depending on display) and way more readable
The web using white as default color was a retarded mistake but not the only one.
HTML isn't XML but some standardles weird crap mixed together with parts that have to be ignored and send to individual parser.
William Martin
Emulating printed books with a light-emitting display is shit for your eyes. Bright illuminated screens are more tiring and will strain your eyes, especially in unlit rooms. Hell, even an ophthalmologist told me to avoid bright screen colors, so fuck bright backgrounds.
I perceive white text on black backgrounds way sharper than the other way around. Could be because I have double-vision.
And the reason against dark themes doesn't seem to be the "muh contrast" meme anymore, given the jarring trend of using light grey on white (pic), because "black on white is too much"
Chase Wright
Yes why don't we?
Luis Wood
If you do some web-digging/stalking, you'd notice that most 90th era websites were optimized for narrower color gamuts and usually have gray/azure/brown background color and textures. Black used to be a common background color too.