Text Color Combinations and Eye Strain?

Posted by Cliff on Friday September 14, 2001 @05:48AM from the aesthetically-pleasing,visually-painless dept.

jalewis asks: "I was staring at the screen and the white background started to pulsate. It made me wonder if maybe my Eterm color choices are bad for my eyes. Is there a combo that put the least amount of strain on your eyes?" I can understand this. I remember back when those monochrome (yes, monochrome! I'm dating myself again) monitors came in terrible shades of red or green. I really appreciated CGA cards with their better handling of text colors when I first started working on PCs, as for general text, I'm still partial to greyish-white text on dark backgrounds. What foreground/background text colors work best for you?

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Re:I have heard.... by SamHill · 2001-09-14 11:01 · Score: 4, Interesting

To this end, if memory serves it was Jerry Pournelle, suggested to MS that they include an option in office that didn't involve a black-on-white display, so there is a little checkbox that lets you have a blue background and white text hidden away in the prefs

My understanding was that the white on blue text in Word was a ``compatibility option'' so people who were forced to stop using WordPerfect could feel slightly more at home.

ObOnTopic: I generally use black text on a light yellow background. That's closer to ink on paper without being quite so glarey.

My partner was happy for years with her monochrome NeXT. Somehow the addition of color makes everything a lot more dodgy.