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First time accepted submitter der_pinchy writes "For many years I have used a high-contrast desktop color scheme (with green text on black background) and notice more and more software uses a forced color scheme that can make it difficult to use. For web browsing I have always used Opera and its white-on-black user style sheet, but have to constantly tweak it so that certain elements and transparent images are visible. Is there anything to be done with some of the major offenders, like Office or recent versions of Visual Studio? Even recent browsers that support user style sheets still use a forced color scheme on a lot of there dialog controls."

195 comments

  1. Polarized sunglasses? by gstoddart · · Score: 1

    Would polarized sunglasses help here? They're generally pretty good at cutting down glare.

    But, maybe your doctor or optometrist would be better to ask?

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    1. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by ciderbrew · · Score: 1

      No. I just tried with a pair on my screen. On this Dell LCD is seems to increase the distance between the text and the glass(plastic)? So whatever polarized coating they use in manufacture, gives all of the head ache and none of the 3D effect.

      HOWEVER! Just one lens is fine. So using two rights of lefts will be fine and is the best way to watch a 3D film.

    2. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by Dr_Barnowl · · Score: 3, Informative

      No.

      Polarized sunglasses cut glare because reflected light tends to be polarized in one direction. Therefore you can selectively block it out.

      Alas, modern flat panel displays all use polarized filters to work. So they don't work too well with polarized glasses.

    3. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by h4rr4r · · Score: 1

      The best way?
      By that you mean just as dim and no 3D? That is a very odd definition of best.

    4. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by pipatron · · Score: 1

      No one is talking about 3D film here, and the OP talks about polarized sunglasses, not 3D glasses.

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    5. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 1

      And what do you think the technology behind 3D glasses is? Hint: polarization

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    6. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "3D glasses" are polarized sunglasses. Why do you think they are two separate things?

    7. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by hawguy · · Score: 3, Interesting

      No. I just tried with a pair on my screen. On this Dell LCD is seems to increase the distance between the text and the glass(plastic)? So whatever polarized coating they use in manufacture, gives all of the head ache and none of the 3D effect.

      HOWEVER! Just one lens is fine. So using two rights of lefts will be fine and is the best way to watch a 3D film.

      Turn your screen 90 degrees and the polarized glasses should take care of 100% of the glare. On most LCD screens, it will make the image go completely black.

      Which is always amusing when places use a monitor turned 90% as an information display - one bright sunny day we walked into a fast food restaurant and my wife asked me what I was going to order, while she pointed to the blank screens. I couldn't figure out how she was reading the menu until I remembered to take off my sunglasses.

      What I don't know is whether monitor makers purposely chose a polarization direction that works well with glare reducing polarized sunglasses, or if it's just coincidence that the best polarization direction for a monitor also happens to be compatible with sunglasses.

    8. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by Lumpy · · Score: 2

      Poalized dont do anything for glare except on water from direct sunlight.

      you need anti glare coatings. And yes It's called going to the eye doctor or turn off the overhead lights.

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    9. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by hawguy · · Score: 1

      And what do you think the technology behind 3D glasses is? Hint: polarization

      Or red/blue color blocking, or LCD shutters. (which I guess technically rely on polarization, but that's not how they get the 3D effect - mechanical shutters would work just as well).

    10. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Interestingly, I've found they could help with a couple of displays I have. When the polarizing filters align, the image looks brighter and the reflections are reduced (at least on my screens).

      However, the polarization angle of my glasses never match the polarization angle of the display filter, causing that I either have to turn the display or my head. Both, inconvenient solutions.

    11. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by AaronLS · · Score: 1

      This is like saying all black birds are crows.

      1) Some 3D glasses use polarization to achieve this, but lots of sunglasses are polarized and have nothing to do with 3D.
      2) In fact polarized sunglasses usually have both lenses oriented in the same direction, instead of being orthoganal, and as such would not work with a 3D display.
      3) Even if you were using glasses poloarized for 3D, the discussion at hand still has nothing to do with 3D because the OP seemed to imply he's talking about a regular display. After all Visual Studio is not an app that is displayed in 3D. We are talking about a regular display. Unless you have a 3D display, a 3D application, and have set the display in 3D mode, then as far as those glasses are concerned, they are just regular polarized glasses. Now if the OP misunderstood the original discussion and enabled 3D on his display, if it supports it, then that is a result of the same confusion you have.

      As others pointed out, the suggestion has nothing to do with 3D, and has more to do with the fact that polarized glasses are good at cutting down glare, at least for sunlight.

    12. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 1

      Nobody uses the red/blue or color blocking anymore, that is ancient technology now. And LCD shutters use polarization.

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    13. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 1

      All I stated was the technology behind 3D glasses is polarization. I didn't claim polarized sunglasses are the same as 3D glasses anywhere. I wasn't trying to imply anything beyond the fact that most 3D glasses use polarization. Anything else is inference by others, not what was stated.

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    14. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by hawguy · · Score: 3, Insightful

      "3D glasses" are polarized sunglasses. Why do you think they are two separate things?

      It's the orientation of the polarization that makes them different.

      3D glasses have the polarization rotated 90 degrees between lenses.

      Polarized sunglasses have the polarization oriented in the same direction.

      You wouldn't want to wear 3D glasses while driving, because your vision would be different between your eyes - you'd see some reflected light with one eye and not the other.

    15. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by hawguy · · Score: 2

      The best way?
      By that you mean just as dim and no 3D? That is a very odd definition of best.

      Actually, that probably *is* the best way to watch most 3D films. Few 3D movies use 3D as more than a gimmick.

    16. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by h4rr4r · · Score: 1

      So far I have enjoyed Priest, Hobbit and Prometheus. 3D seems about as much a gimmick as color. The big thing I found I had to do was resist the urge to look at what the camera was not focused on. Hopefully one day eye tracking and lytro type cameras make even that possible.

    17. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by PNutts · · Score: 3, Informative

      Poalized dont do anything for glare except on water from direct sunlight.

      Polarized glasses eliminate any light not in the proper orientation, regardless of its source. In the example of sunglasses, besides water it also reduces glare from the streets themselves, metal (manhole covers), etc.

    18. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by Lumpy · · Score: 1

      and are 100% useless in computer use.

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    19. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by Vegemeister · · Score: 1

      And the really good 3D glasses use circular polarization, so the picture doesn't change when you tilt your head.

    20. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by jythie · · Score: 1

      A while back I mounted some photographic circular polarizers in a goggle frame and tried various tasks like walking around. You can get used to it, but yeah, driving would be a bad idea....

    21. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You wear sunglasses inside? Vampire or hipster?

    22. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by Macgrrl · · Score: 1

      I tend to have this problem at the local train station I use to exit the city in the evenings, the platform boards at the station entry are portrait orientated LCD screens. I have to remember to remove my sunglasses as I approach so I can read them as I get rushed past them in a hurry by the stream of people.

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    23. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by flyingfsck · · Score: 1

      3D glasses are cross polarized - one lens is vertical, the other horizontal. Sunglasses have both lenses vertically polarized.

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    24. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by pepty · · Score: 1

      The big thing I found I had to do was resist the urge to look at what the camera was not focused on. Hopefully one day eye tracking and lytro type cameras make even that possible.

      I don't think they need lytro type cameras or eye tracking. Directors have been using shallow depths of field to guide the eye and compose the frame for over a hundred years. The problem now is making them choose: selective focus OR 3D. No, not both. No jumping back and forth between selective focus and 3D either. Choose one or the other and get on with the show. To me the big problem is the focus/convergence distance difference. When they can do that (giant heads up display?) it will stop being a gimmick.

    25. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by sjames · · Score: 1

      At least no headache. If you can't get it in 2D, that may be the best you can hope for.

    26. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by h4rr4r · · Score: 1

      Stop focusing on stuff that is out of focus.
      That is your problem. It was mine as well. You need to keep your focus only the items in focus and not attempt to force the background into focus.

    27. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by Asmor · · Score: 1

      The really crazy thing about polarized sunglasses is that you can actually see the difference they make by tilting your head. I often find myself looking down at the street as I'm walking around Boston rolling my head back and forth, amused by how different it looks at different angles, and then belatedly realize I probably look like a loony.

    28. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by Asmor · · Score: 1

      I've actually found that most LCDs go black somewhere around 45 degrees one way or the other, so that they're also brightest at 45 degrees and rather dim at normal right angles.

      I wear polarized prescription sunglasses during my commute and one day forgot to take my normal glasses with me. Gave me a nasty headache trying to work in the polarized glasses.

    29. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by Asmor · · Score: 1

      Not GPP, but I can speak for myself: I don't take my sunglasses off until I'm going to be settled down for a good long while. That means if I go into a store or fast food for a moment, I leave them on.

      Neither vampire nor hipster (well, ok, maybe a little hipster, but that's not why). I'm nearsighted, and my sunglasses are prescription. It's easier to just leave them on for brief indoor jaunts than to take them off, dig out my regular glasses, put those on, and put my sunglasses away.

    30. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by strikethree · · Score: 1

      Samsung LCD screens (at least the ones I can see (monitor and phone)) appear to have their polarization at a 45 degree angle.

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    31. Re:Polarized sunglasses? by ciderbrew · · Score: 1

      Yeah, stop using your eyes the way you are supposed to!

  2. The future's so bright, I gotta wear. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sunglasses?

  3. LED Screens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Black on white on LED screens gives me major migraines. When will they understand computer screens are not like ink on paper.

    1. Re:LED Screens by Patch86 · · Score: 2

      Never, I think. I have a Kindle Fire, and was astonished to find that the default colour scheme for reading books was black-text-on-white. It can be changed to white-on-black, but I just can't fathom why anyone would choose the default option if they knew to change it. Surely Amazon employ UI designers?

    2. Re:LED Screens by swanzilla · · Score: 3, Funny

      Surely Amazon employ UI designers?

      They do, and don't call Amazon Shirley.

    3. Re:LED Screens by cellocgw · · Score: 1

      Well, I can't fathom why you think the only color option is binary: #FFFFFF vs #000000 . At least with the tablets chez moi (one iPad, one Onda Android), it's easy to adjust the page background in book-reading apps (Nook, Mantano, etc) to some other color. I find a light parchment, with, yes, black text, to be very comfortable.

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    4. Re:LED Screens by jellomizer · · Score: 1

      We have some terminal Apps at work. I have mine with a black background... You will be surprised how many complain about that black background color, saying how hard it is to see. I expect most of the bitching and moaning isn't that it is harder to see, but what they are use too.

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    5. Re:LED Screens by Christopher_G_Lewis · · Score: 1

      If it's an OLED display, black backgrounds save on battery...

    6. Re:LED Screens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is yet another Steve Jobs clusterfuck. The original Mac was the first PC that used black on white and idiots have been aping it since.
      EMMISIVE DSPLAYS SHOULD NOT HAVE BRIGHT BACKGROUNDS!

    7. Re:LED Screens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I only read ebooks on my N7 as black on white, even in the dark. I hate dark backgrounds.

    8. Re:LED Screens by der_pinchy · · Score: 0

      Yea everyone that sees my desktop says "what in the world are those colors?" or "what OS are you using?"
      I honestly can't see how people use a white BG. It feels like someone is shining a flashlight in your face.

    9. Re:LED Screens by Spectre · · Score: 3, Informative

      Most fonts appear to have smoother edges and more consistent curves when rendered as black-text-on-white background, which is why that is the default ...

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    10. Re:LED Screens by Hamsterdan · · Score: 1

      Because it looks more like a book this way?

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    11. Re:LED Screens by Endlisnis · · Score: 2

      I grew up with white-on-black DOS screens. In my recent jobs, I spend a lot of time using command-line terminal windows. For years, I used white-on-black. But, stating about 2 years ago, I switched to black-on-white. I found an immediate relief. It is much easier to stare at and less tiring when viewed for long durations. Maybe there's no biological preference, but I'll let you know that, for me, it's not just about what I'm used to. Black-on-white is easier for me.

    12. Re:LED Screens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I use the same but some linux distros use Dark-Blue for directories in the terminal, a while back i changed it to light blue so it would show but now can't remember how i did it. (VI/VIM did the same for commented lines)

      That single default setting is the only one i would change

      Wish i remember how i did the directory color (I have a vim template that is the first thing loaded after SSH on every server install)

    13. Re:LED Screens by tlhIngan · · Score: 1

      We have some terminal Apps at work. I have mine with a black background... You will be surprised how many complain about that black background color, saying how hard it is to see. I expect most of the bitching and moaning isn't that it is harder to see, but what they are use too.

      There is a legitimacy to that - white-on-black generally causes the black to "creep" into the white font, so a designer who uses the color scheme generally has to increase the font size and/or bold it so it retains the same apparent visibility as it would if it was black-on-white. It's a curious optical illusion. If you use a very skinny font where the body is a thin line, then white on black turns it to a very low contrast grey-on-black.

      It's something to do with black - like that optical illusion where you have black squares arranged in a 4x4 grid, and a thin white line between them and how the intersections of the white lines appeared a grey dot.

    14. Re:LED Screens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You were astonished? I'm sure I could walk around my office here and at least 90% of people would be reading black on white text off their screens. I have no problem with it. I would think reading white text on a black screen would make me feel as if had traveled to a time when Geocities websites ruled the Earth!

    15. Re:LED Screens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I expect most of the bitching and moaning isn't that it is harder to see, but what they are use too.

      The submitter mentions wanting green on black. That's resisting change for a very long time. I remember helping people transition to color monitors by mimicking monochrome monitors back in the late 80's. I loved white on blue for years, but have accepted black on white. When they fake untestable health problems like headaches it's sad. My users just said they preferred the old way and I did my best to help them. If you've got headaches, there's probably something else wrong beyond style settings.

    16. Re:LED Screens by Macgrrl · · Score: 1

      Back in the dim dark past when I used to do website UI stuff (TM), I used to set my backgrounds at something approaching 5% grey and the text at something like 95% grey because it was much easier on the eyes to read, but still afforded ample contrast. Don't ask me to remember the RGB settings, it's been too long.

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    17. Re:LED Screens by Macgrrl · · Score: 1

      A shudder just went down my spine even trying to picture that.

      Though on reflection, it probably wouldn't have been white on black text, it would have been a scrolling marquee of rainbow text that probably also used the Netscape blink tag.

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    18. Re:LED Screens by ThePhilips · · Score: 1

      Well, Amazon Kindle has unfortunately pre-made three choices for you:

      1. (Default) Black on light gray. Not great but OK.

      2. White on black. And that is hard black on true white. High contrast nightmare.

      3. Sepia: some sort of grayish on some sort of yellowish. Low contrast nightmare.

      White on black and sepia lay essentially on extremes of the contrast range, leaving as useful only the #1. Without a jail-break, there is no way to create the popular for backlit screens "Light gray on black" color scheme. And that is one of the reasons why I stayed away from the Kindles with the LCD. eInk is OK (but the new Kindle devices with e-Ink sport newish squarish UI which unfortunately is too dumb down; my next device will not be from Amazon).

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    19. Re:LED Screens by ThePhilips · · Score: 1

      This is yet another Steve Jobs clusterfuck. The original Mac was the first PC that used black on white and idiots have been aping it since.

      It's not white. In fact, the light background on Macs is not even a color - it is a texture with smoothed horizontal stripes. Not huge fan of it, but it is not THAT bad.

      That was one of the first surprising things I found on the Macs: somehow background is light, yet my eyes haven't started aching immediately. Took screenshot, enlarged it and enjoyed that the UI designers are not complete fools.

      Newer versions of Mac OS have more of plain colors. But most of the UI still uses some textures for background. The net effect is that even empty space in the UI to the eyes doesn't look glaringly empty. And that's pretty much only advantage of it.

      EMMISIVE DSPLAYS SHOULD NOT HAVE BRIGHT BACKGROUNDS!

      *Nod*

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    20. Re:LED Screens by strikethree · · Score: 1

      Most fonts appear to have smoother edges and more consistent curves when rendered as black-text-on-white background

      That is because of sub-pixel font hinting. Black edges can be smoothed with variations of red, green, and blue. White edges, not so much. You might think black on white, white on black, what is the difference? I would guess it is mental. Black looks okay as smudged letters on white background because the meaning is in the black.

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  4. Needs more clarification by Bovius · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm used to interpreting "glare sensitivity" to meaning the screen is generally too bright for your eyes, but the subsequent comments about needing to use high contrast color palettes has me thinking maybe you mean something else.

    Anyway: I stare at a monitor all day, and for quite a while I had some serious dry eye problems because of it. Then about a year ago I bought some Gunnar glasses ( http://www.gunnars.com/ ) and my eyes got happier within 24 hours. Wear them all the time now.

    Full disclosure: I'm not even kind of affiliated with Gunnar. I just wear their glasses and I like them.

    1. Re:Needs more clarification by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes i got a pair a few months back (got them on sale for like $50, don't think i would have the $200 retail price though) but they work as advertised, i also drive at night with them on, being color blind driving at night is bad enough but the glare from on coming headlights is enough to blind me for a bit, not long, but enough that if a deer were to jump out i would even see it, let alone be able to take evasive action. The glasses reduce the glare enough that i can see the whole time. But as far a siting in front of a monitor they help block a lot of glare from florescent light and generally just make things easier on the eyes.

    2. Re:Needs more clarification by Redlazer · · Score: 1
      I was going to suggest something along those lines.

      When I was in college, we had fluorescent lights and super bright LED screens. The intensity was a little much for me, so I wore my sunglasses all the time.

      I'd recommend any glasses that are Polarized - that's what's making the Gunnar glasses work in this scenario, although the Gunnar glasses aren't darkened, which could be nice.

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    3. Re:Needs more clarification by der_pinchy · · Score: 0

      With a predominately white background it literally feels like someone is shining a flashlight in my face. I made a tool for windows to switch between my high contrast desktop (green text, black BG and blue controls) and a 'normal' color scheme on the fly when I need to read something. I might give these glasses a try, looks like they could help. I knew a guy at an old job that put a hood over his monitor so he could see it better. A lot of older LCD monitors just dont display well with overhead fluorescent light.

    4. Re:Needs more clarification by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Got my Gunnars about 18 months ago for continuos computer work after I was diagnosed with eye strain which was causing glare sensitivity. My eyes improved immediately. They use an anti-glare coating which is not polarized so it works with LCDs.

    5. Re:Needs more clarification by Lumpy · · Score: 2

      Buy cheap glasses from anywhere with a 10% yellow tint and anti glare coatings and get the same thing as "gunnar" glasses for about $29.00 shipped.

      That is all they are. Although I prefer the 10% grey as it increases contrast and does not color my world.

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    6. Re:Needs more clarification by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      You do realize that all those speciality glasses are doing is what you should be doing anyways, right?
      Calibrate your monitor to ~6500K and the need for yellow tint glasses goes away. Modern monitors come from the factory over 10000K which is AWFUL.
      Added blue makes whites look 'whiter' and brighter, so they keep turninig up the blue.

    7. Re:Needs more clarification by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm wondering how you figure adding 10% grey (don't you mean 10% black?) increases contrast. Both highlights and shadows become darker. To increase contrast, you'd need to lighten the highlights and darken the shadows. If anything, it decreases contrast because it doesn't get blacker than black. Try wearing 90% black sunglasses and see how much the contrast increases.

    8. Re:Needs more clarification by PNutts · · Score: 1

      I'm wondering how you figure adding 10% grey (don't you mean 10% black?) increases contrast. Both highlights and shadows become darker. To increase contrast, you'd need to lighten the highlights and darken the shadows. If anything, it decreases contrast because it doesn't get blacker than black. Try wearing 90% black sunglasses and see how much the contrast increases.

      "It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black."

    9. Re:Needs more clarification by PNutts · · Score: 1

      I was thinking the same thing - yellow plastic glasses. The website is mostly videos with breathless explainations, disbelieving headshaking at what they've discovered, and questionable claims. The lenses are made from DIAMIX which apparently has no definition outside of their website. Personally I'm disappointed they aren't made of Diamondium.

    10. Re:Needs more clarification by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      There's a program that adjusts the color temp of your screen based on time of day (so that you can turn it down further at night - even 6500K hurts at night and looks crazy blue under incandescent lights). Anyway, f.lux

    11. Re:Needs more clarification by Macgrrl · · Score: 1

      Another option is to look at the brightness settings on your monitor. Most are adjustable. Firstly consider using a lower (warmer) colour temperature, or alternately just adjusting the brightness down and potentially the contrast slightly. This may alleviate the symptoms without needing to mess around with software configurations.

      That said, if you are routinely suffering from glare based headaches, you probably need an eye exam and something like transition lenses.

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    12. Re:Needs more clarification by Macgrrl · · Score: 1

      Graphic designers used to work with shrouds over their large monitors all the time so that wall colours didn't reflect onto what they were working with and skew the outcome. They used to be standard for RasterOps and other high end colour balanced displays.

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    13. Re:Needs more clarification by ThePhilips · · Score: 1

      I was thinking the same thing - yellow plastic glasses.

      My first thought was: yellow filter. The effect of the yellow filter is well known from the times of B&W photography: boost contrast, darken the (blue) skies (so that they do not white out completely). In color or with DSLRs, the same effect is achieved by adjusting white balance settings in the direction of amber: it gives the picture warmer colors.

      Some people have mentioned above the Redshift. I personally use on my PC the f.lux and it appears that both programs have almost the same effect as the yellow filter.

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  5. OS? by lazarus · · Score: 5, Informative

    You didn't say what version of Windows you were running, so it's tough to tell what might be available to you from an accessibility standpoint. On the Mac you can invert colours, use greyscale, and alter the contrast of the screen as well as cursor size (in addition to the typical colour schemes, display brightness, etc). It sounds to me like you may be facing an uphill battle if you are trying to do this outside of what the OS supports directly.

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    1. Re:OS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Exactly. Unless you tell the OS that you want high contrast mode, it won't preserve the high contrast for you in all programs because the program won't know about it. Just use a high contrast scheme on the OS but tweak the hell out of it to get what you want. Just copy down all the settings of your current scheme and transpose them into a new scheme. The only real loss is that high contrast (as far as I have found) does not allow transparency without using third party or changing the theme file in an editor.

    2. Re:OS? by der_pinchy · · Score: 0

      Mostly WIN7 and XP. I made a tool that switches between my high contrast colors and a default color scheme so I can read some text that is black on black. But for a lot of apps there is just no winning. It makes me want to bust out a disassembler and alter the colors manually. I figured people out there would have done that for some of the more mainstream apps.

    3. Re:OS? by iced_773 · · Score: 2

      While I switched to Linux long before Windows got this feature, you might find the misnamed Magnifier useful:

      http://www.wikihow.com/Invert-Colors-on-Windows-7

    4. Re:OS? by Reziac · · Score: 1

      That's the problem -- I have my Windows set to grey backgrounds because white screens hurt my eyes, but increasingly, some apps override your system settings. Moz family is one of 'em... SeaMonkey's mail doesn't allow setting quoteback colors (if you don't like blue, too bad for you) and insists that some things, like the configuration screens, must be WHITE.

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  6. Me too (with fix notes) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've got a similar problem. I've taken to filing bugs with every vendor when I encounter a forced color scheme that dishonors system settings. Fat client apps are very likely to get fixed.

    Visual Studio fixes itself if you turn on high-contrast and then load your color scheme on top of it. In Windows 7, saving your color scheme with high contrast enabled saved high contrast enabled to the color scheme. In Windows 8, high contrast is always on when the color scheme is not the default.

    Unfortunately, websites tend to not fix their bugs. I get too many "it's a browser bug", and one that was equivalent to "use a screen reader" even after I offered to fix their bug for them.

    I suppose you could hack up a 1 bit display driver that only sends green to the monitor, or perhaps with a remote desktop client that does (incoming) -> (gresyscale) -> (green) -> (inverted green).

    1. Re:Me too (with fix notes) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've got a similar problem. I've taken to filing bugs with every vendor when I encounter a forced color scheme that dishonors system settings. Fat client apps are very likely to get fixed.

      Visual Studio fixes itself if you turn on high-contrast and then load your color scheme on top of it. In Windows 7, saving your color scheme with high contrast enabled saved high contrast enabled to the color scheme. In Windows 8, high contrast is always on when the color scheme is not the default.

      Unfortunately, websites tend to not fix their bugs. I get too many "it's a browser bug", and one that was equivalent to "use a screen reader" even after I offered to fix their bug for them.

      I suppose you could hack up a 1 bit display driver that only sends green to the monitor, or perhaps with a remote desktop client that does (incoming) -> (gresyscale) -> (green) -> (inverted green).

      A worse problem I've found with Windows 8 is that the text of the title bars is always black, even though you can change the colors of your window borders. Like a dark theme? Too bad (bottom of the page).

    2. Re:Me too (with fix notes) by Ceriel+Nosforit · · Score: 1

      I've taken to filing bugs with every vendor when I encounter a forced color scheme that dishonors system settings.

      Mind sharing that template? :)

      In return, I give you this:
      https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/change-colors/jbmkekhehjedonbhoikhhkmlapalklgn?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon

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    3. Re:Me too (with fix notes) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Unfortunately, websites tend to not fix their bugs. I get too many "it's a browser bug", and one that was equivalent to "use a screen reader" even after I offered to fix their bug for them.

      It is surprising how often something like this comes up. I can understand that randomly contacting someone out of the blue about their webpage being done wrong, even if done politely, can get some rather impolite responses. No one likes dealing with some cocky nobody bugging you about being wrong, especially if you don't happen to see they are correct. But some of the expectations a select few web page designers come up with is kind of outrageous. I've seen responses that they want you to change your screen resolution just to view their site, or to go in and change registry settings (regardless of what OS and browser you happen to be using...), install a different graphics driver, or change other system settings to view it.

      I've even seen simple mistakes on internal webpages that make them nearly unusable, by making text too small to read, including trying to bypass the browser resizing of text. Employees complain they have to copy paste text just to read it, and the only response is the web designer requesting IT department put a maximum resolution limit on employee computers of like 1024x768. Or even once someone asked me to review the front end to their new online store... only to tell me I was looking at it wrong (even though I was using default settings)... which I am sure customers will be willing to put up with.

      But the vast majority of sites that don't play well with different color or resolution sizes are because the creator never thought to test or prepare it for such a setup. A much smaller slice are aware of such issues, but too lazy to do things the right way. And only the really "special" web designers actively defend their horrible design choices not working due to the viewer's fault.

    4. Re:Me too (with fix notes) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No template. I take a screen snapshot clearly showing my color theme and the application ignoring it and submit it as a bug along with an explanation for why I use that color theme.

    5. Re:Me too (with fix notes) by Dr.+Evil · · Score: 2

      Or... cut pin 1 and 3 on your VGA connector: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_connector

    6. Re:Me too (with fix notes) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Won't work. *INVERT* is the key.

  7. Simple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Invert the colors in X11 itself: xcalib -i -a

    1. Re:Simple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Since he mentioned Office and Visual Studio, I strongly doubt that he is using X.

    2. Re:Simple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      The fact this was modded -1 demonstrates the problem with the moderation system and the readership on this site.

    3. Re:Simple by hippo · · Score: 1

      I love you, mod parent up please. How come I can never find programs like these?

  8. glare by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    steel wool 0000?,tape

  9. bias lighting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    If black on white text is too bright then you probably need more light in the room. Your eyes adjust to the overall scene brightness, so if you have a bright screen in the middle of a dark field, because the lights are out in the room, then the screen will appear too bright and fatiguing. Try installing some LEDs on the back of your monitor to illuminate the wall behind the screen. That will increase the overall scene brightness and make the screen seem less harsh without creating reflections on the screen.

    1. Re:bias lighting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Some people have health issues and struggle with bright light no matter what it's relative to. Nothing is comfortable except a dark room with a black screen.

    2. Re:bias lighting by cthulhu11 · · Score: 1

      This is known as bias lighting in the home theater market, but I'm curious how you'd expect someone to "install" LED's on the back of a monitor.

  10. What OS / Window manager? by oneiros27 · · Score: 4, Informative

    If it's MacOS X, go into the 'Universal Access' control panel, and there's a 'contrast' slider, and you can force greyscale, black on white, or white on black.

    Most X windows managers have ways to do similar things, although in some you have to mess with configuration files.

    No idea how to do it in Amiga or Haiku, though.

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    1. Re:What OS / Window manager? by tburke261 · · Score: 1

      It's 'Accessibility' in newer versions of OS X, fyi

  11. different by leptons · · Score: 1

    Sometimes being different is difficult. You are an edge case, and a very insignificant one at that.

    If you want your own color schemes in everything then you're gonna have a bad time. Software and webpages aren't created for your edge case, these things are created for people who don't have a color scheme preference.

    Learning to "go with the flow" will get you better mileage than trying to make everything bend to your edge case.

    1. Re:different by h4rr4r · · Score: 1

      Only if you want to always have a mediocre experience.

    2. Re:different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thank you for posting the first common sense response to this question.

    3. Re:different by leptons · · Score: 1

      A mediocre experience would be what OP has written about his edge case - "but have to constantly tweak it so that certain elements and transparent images are visible." The fixation on custom colors is what is creating the mediocre experience, not the web page that was designed to look a specific way. No designer can create a web page that will look good when a user tweaks the background color and other colors. It just isn't going to turn out well.

    4. Re:different by pipatron · · Score: 1

      And if "going with the flow" means having to stop using a computer because it gives you a headache, that's ok? Because developers constantly force their own colour schemes instead of respecting the choice that the user made? Doesn't sound very nice.

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    5. Re:different by h4rr4r · · Score: 1

      A mediocre experience is having to cope with less than ideal display to deal with a poorly designed interface.

      Any designer can create a webpage that looks good when a user tweaks the colors. It should be expected in fact, the display layer is under the users control. Degrade gracefully. A webpage that is well designed will be fine in grayscale. A webpage that is well designed can be used by a screen reader. A web page that is well designed can be used via lynx.

      Another mediocre experience is when I have to use another persons computer who has Ctrl and Capslock in the place modern keyboards assume. I always change that to the way the FSM intended.

    6. Re:different by leptons · · Score: 1

      >It should be expected in fact

      What kind of rock do you live under? You really expect users to tweak the colors of a webpage?? I think you are giving too much credit to the vast majority of users that make up the internet. Not everyone is an uber-nerd. Nobody really cares about changing the color of every webpage, or even a single webpage. The vast majority of users simply do not care or even know that it is possible, and would never think twice about doing it.

      >Any designer can create a webpage that looks good when a user tweaks the colors.

      Here you are just being plain crazy. Have you ever worked with a designer?? Have you ever created a webpage? It sure doesn't sound like it.

      >Another mediocre experience is when I have to use another persons computer who has Ctrl and Capslock in the place modern keyboards assume. I always change that to the way the FSM intended.

      Now you're just babbling, or trolling.

    7. Re:different by h4rr4r · · Score: 1

      Lots of normal users at my company due as they have vision problems. Color blindness impacts about 8% of males in some way as a fine example.

      I have created many webpages, I always make sure they degrade as gracefully as possible. Any designer not planning for use of websites by the disabled should simply be terminated. Enabling use by as many people as possible is job 1.

      I am not troll nor babbling, I prefer to have Crtl where most people have capslock. This comes from my cutting my teeth on SUN machines. It is also very handy for VIM which I use constantly.

    8. Re:different by leptons · · Score: 2

      If you are getting headaches from using a computer, you have more serious issues than the color of a webpage. You should really get that checked out.

      The internet, and computer applications as a whole do not give people headaches because of the color schemes used. If this were the case, computers would be labeled with warning stickers - "May cause headaches". This is simply not the case. You are straining so hard to try to make an erroneous point. Just because you get headaches from a specific color scheme on a screen does not mean the rest of us do. I've been staring at computer screens 12+ hours a day for the last 30 years and I've never once had a headache that I thought was induced by the default colors of the applications open on my screen.

      Developers aren't "forcing their own color schemes", they use color schemes that are widely accepted as being productive and useful and that work for the majority of people using their products. Catering to an edge case only makes the job that much more difficult if they have to satisfy the functional requirements as well as make it work with any color choice the user wants. It's absurd.

    9. Re:different by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 2

      If you are getting headaches from using a computer, you have more serious issues than the color of a webpage. You should really get that checked out.

      And just what do you think the doctor will recommend?

      Almost certainly they will just tell the patient to adjust the color scheme on their computer so that they don't get headaches. That should fix the problem, assuming the software developer wasn't some kind of self-centered asshole who made it impossible.

    10. Re:different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What kind of rock do you live under? You really expect users to tweak the colors of a webpage?? I think you are giving too much credit to the vast majority of users that make up the internet. Not everyone is an uber-nerd. Nobody really cares about changing the color of every webpage, or even a single webpage. The vast majority of users simply do not care or even know that it is possible, and would never think twice about doing it.

      I have been building websites every day for years and yes I work with designers (I don't do design myself, at least not recently).

      Yes, I do expect users to tweak the colours. I don't expect very many to do so, but I do expect some. And I also expect some to use screen readers or other software that needs to programatically understand the webpage.

      Designing with that in mind is a huge constraint but it is possible to fit within them and still create a nice webpage. Any designer who thinks it's more important to make a nice looking website than a functional one is an idiot in my opinion, especially since it's possible to be both nice looking and functional.

      A website design where the user cannot tweak the colours is just as bad as a business with stairs and no wheelchair ramp. Sure, the ramp will be used extremely infrequently and sure it's very expensive to make a ramp (or god forbid a lift) and it forces you to fit within complicated design constraints, but *every good business does have a ramp* and in some countries it's even required by law.

    11. Re:different by Macgrrl · · Score: 1

      One of the nice and often underrated features of WoW is that there are about 8 different colourblindness filters built into the client for different kinds of colourblindness.

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  12. Visual Studio by ZeroSerenity · · Score: 1

    You can change your Visual Studio color settings by going to Tools->Options->Enviroment->Fonts and Colors.

    If you want something high contrast without the hassle, I use Ragnarok Blue. Download the file, go back to VS, Tools->Import and Export Settings and then follow the instructions to find the file.

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    1. Re:Visual Studio by ZeroSerenity · · Score: 1

      Forgot to mention but this does work all the way up to 2010, so I would also assume it works for 2012 as well without an issue.

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    2. Re:Visual Studio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You can do the same thing in Office. Microsoft has pretty first rate accessibility features like that.

      Poster is just anti-MS trolling. On slashdot of all places!

      (10 bucks says he has never written a line of code, let alone used visual studio)

    3. Re:Visual Studio by jones_supa · · Score: 2

      Actually, VS 2012 also ships with a very nice dark theme. :)

      studiostyl.es deserves also a mention. Changing colors inside VS is rather painful as the list is extremely long.

    4. Re:Visual Studio by der_pinchy · · Score: 0

      The problem is not the editor but the window frame and controls, They are still very bright.
      Office has selectable themes but even with a 'dark theme' they are not high contrast compared to a standard high contrast desktop.

    5. Re:Visual Studio by ColdCat · · Score: 1

      Unfortunately Without third party/manual edit Visual 2010 won't let you customised completely colors

      It's pretty difficult to have at the same time
      -black background
      -bright text
      -selected text readable.

      In visual 2010 you could select only font color for language and only background color for selection. If you have bright text you should select dark color for selection, but with dark color for selection it's less readable as background is dark too.

      On all previous versions (maybe even visual 1.0 with widows 3 theme ) you can have selected text with bright background and dark text but since VS2010 it's over.

    6. Re:Visual Studio by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 1

      The problem is not the editor but the window frame and controls,

      This is what drives me insane. I'm fine with most default colors on OSes, but I insist on having the window with focus clearly highlighted with a unique border color. That way I can predict basic little things like what might happen if I press a particular key.

      I know that MS thinks that the fuzzy shadow effect in Aero achieves that goal, but the fuzzy shadows are what give me headaches (and the fat default borders waste screen space), so I turn them off. That means that I have to set a custom color and border size scheme, since MS thinks that an unhighlighted border should be #7e7e7e and a highlighted should be #7f7f7f.

      However, Office just plain ignores these settings, and it uses its own window border color scheme no matter what. Instead, it allows me to pick from a predefined gray-tinged or blue-tinged version of the same bland crap that doesn't look like anything else on my desktop. Reminds me of some crappy mp3 player skin from the 1990s.

      After thousands of man-years of development, is this the best they can do?

      I guess it looks like in Windows 8 they're trying to address the problem... by only showing one program at a time. Undoubtedly thousands more man-years went into that brilliant solution.

    7. Re:Visual Studio by jones_supa · · Score: 1

      KDE is nice in this sense as it draws a shine around the window that is active.

    8. Re:Visual Studio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nice. Do you also have a way of making it STOP SHOUTING AT PEOPLE?

    9. Re:Visual Studio by jones_supa · · Score: 1

      It could very well be possible to mod it. The uppercase menus don't bother me too much, but one could try overwriting them in hex editor as lowercase.

    10. Re:Visual Studio by jabelli · · Score: 1

      Yes.

      There's this site called "Google" that helps you find stuff on the Internet. Perhaps you should try it.

  13. Not necessarily simple by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 2

    Invert the colors in X11 itself: xcalib -i -a

    What would that do to a Wine session, or to a VM running Windows on a Linux host?
    If it does what I think (Linux-only here, no VM or Wine), there could be confusing issues in figuring out palettes afterwards in the VM or in a Wine session. The OP mentioned using Office and Visual Studio, so it's likely to be a Windows user.

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  14. For violent offenders by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    For violent offenders which have US entities, make an ADA complaint to them directly, and if they respond rudely, file an official ADA complaint. If you're a $10M+ company, you can afford to make your website acccessible. Small businesses, on the other hand, tend to respond pleasantly and often make thier websites better.

  15. This has saved my eyes by venir · · Score: 1

    Not sure if this addresses your particular issues, but I use f.lux and it has totally saved my eyes. I periodically lower the settings on it, which continues to help with my eye strain and I'm so used to it I forget it is running most of the time.

    1. Re:This has saved my eyes by jones_supa · · Score: 1

      I use f.lux too. Similar program for desktop Linux would be Redshift.

  16. Get a proper diagnosis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Glare sensitivity shouldn't require anything other than contrast and brightness adjustment on your display. Whatever is wrong with you needs to be properly diagnosed and treated, but it's not glare sensitivity.

  17. vs extension and chrome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I use a visual studio colorscheme I downloaded somewhere and an extension to make the navigation pane backgroung the same color (sorry I'm being so vague im not home now and wtf why should I need to do this). And for browsing I have two chrome extensions, one inverts the colors and is easier on the eyes but also inverts pics and the other inverts only text but you lose stuff like syntax highlighting for code.

  18. turn on the lights by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Turn on the lights in your mancave and find a low glare monitor (i.e. not "high contrast"), and you won't need a green on black color scheme to prevent glare headaches.

  19. Your own fault for not using Linux. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    With Linux GUIs, colors, fonts, widget styles, window decoration, etc are generally system-wide. You set them once, and you're good. The freedom you get with e.g. QTcurve (also available for Gnome) is *huge*.

    Just grow up and stop sticking to silly toy appliance operating systems. Get a computer OS that's actually *designed* for users who want to use their computer for its real purpose, and not just consume "media" and play with colorful appliances that try to block you from actually using it that way.

    1. Re:Your own fault for not using Linux. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's sad that you actually had there a valid point (desktop Linux does allow more efficient color configuration) but ruined it with some toy OS flamebait crap.

  20. Re:first! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    did the glare from your monitor blind you to how much of a failure you are?

  21. Suggestions by Ceriel+Nosforit · · Score: 1

    I have thinking about how to solve the issue programmatically. That is, once and for all. There are a few rules which could be forced upon the window server. Compiz for example has some potential in this direction, so it could be refined.

    - When luminance per area exceed a user-set property, invert luminance but keep chroma. Perhaps something ImageMagick or similar could do with ease.

    - Be aware of common image formats and be reasonably sure that everything else is typeface. With emerging VR we might have to invent lots of new definitions.

    - When it is a typeface, treat it like the user wants text to be treated, perhaps relying on CSS templates and window/tab titles or domain names. AFAIK there is no URL for viewports, so there will be a issue of persistence.

    Who the hell decided the web wanted to be white anyway? A white web is bad for mobile.

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  22. Check out Solarized by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Probably not what you are looking for, but this is great and I have it configured for the things I spend all day looking at: urxvt and vim

    http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

    Apparently you can configure many other software packages to use the scheme too.

    The colors are not particularly attractive, but they are very readable.

  23. ZoomText by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    For Windows check out ZoomText www.aisquared.com/zoomtext/

    It's targeted at the visually impaired (yes I've used it) and allows you to control the overall color of your screen no matter the application. You don't have to use the magnification feature if you just want to enhance the colors.

    http://www.aisquared.com/zoomtext/tour/enhancements#enhanced_screen_colors

    The dyes are amazing. Yellow / Black, Amber / Black, etc...

    1. Re:ZoomText by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I will second the vote for ZoomText - for what you seem to be needing, this is awesome software. You can shift colors (e.g. Blue becomes red), mess with Hue, Saturation, and Lighting. You can even shift everything to monochrome (if you wanted to have only black and shades of green, this will do it). ZoomText works on top of all your other software (like a display driver), so if you have color setting that works for your, it will work across every program you are using. You don't have to use magnification to use the pointer, color, or cursor effects. It even has hotkeys to enable/disable features on the fly.

      60-day trial version:
      http://www.aisquared.com/zoomtext/more/download_zoomtext_trial/

  24. Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Are these really the sort of questions which are now considered Slashdot worthy? Maybe I should stop using a search engine and just Ask Slashot to find me the results.

  25. Visual Studio Extension by kzagor · · Score: 1

    for visual studio 2012, there is a color editor extension http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/366ad100-0003-4c9a-81a8-337d4e7ace05

  26. Psychologist? by G3ckoG33k · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you need someone trained to alternative explanations?

    After all, several of the available color schemes were adapted using people trained in adapting color schemes. Maybe someone trained may help you.

  27. Change the theme by jader3rd · · Score: 1

    For the major offender of VS 2012, type 'color theme ' into Quick Launch and select Environment - General. Then change the Color theme to Dark.
    For Office 2013 go to the General options and change the Office Theme to Dark Gray.

  28. Compiz shaders by Derek+Pomery · · Score: 1

    They can be applied to any window w/ a key combo, and are fairly customisable.
    Here's a custom one applied to Firefox, is one that preserves colours while inverting lightness.

    http://m8y.org/tmp/biased-inverted-lightness.txt
    http://m8y.org/tmp/inverted-lightness.txt

    http://m8y.org/tmp/lightness1.jpeg http://m8y.org/tmp/lightness2.jpeg http://m8y.org/tmp/lightness3.jpeg

    Arbitrary tweaks of the values. Apologies for the relative unreadableness of the script (variable reuse, bad names) was just a quick implementation of:
    http://dbaron.org/log/20110430-invert-colors

    To be actually usable for routine web browsing.

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  29. Eclipse... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This may vary by version, but in Eclipse, open Preferences and then expand General > Appearance. You can select from a few built-in Themes from there, and you can further expand General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts for even more options. There are about a gazillion different options, including the background, foreground, and highlight color for just about everything that is not an OS control (buttons, scrollbars.)

  30. No answer, but annoyed as well by TheCarp · · Score: 2

    Ever since my apple ][ days, when I had a color monitor, I knew I liked dark backgrounds and light text. At the time, red on black. Now I am happy with a light gray on black

    Setting this on terminals is cake. Even putty can be made reasonable quickly.

    However... they are the exception. Nearly everything I use regularly really works. Few support changing color schemes at all, and the ones that do, are so limited as to be useless. Pidgin and eclipse both come to mind as having mechanisms (with pidgin I believe its via plugins) to change color schemes, but only in very limited ways. You can't, change the look of many of the utility window parts, like the resources view....so the darker you make the rest, the more jarring those stand outs become.... often making it less appealing than reverting to defaults.

    Of course, I have a north facing window that overlooks an old barn that the neighbors put white siding on, so the glare from that can be prodigeous during the day. Room darkening shades, preferably with wooden slats take care of that nicely.

    I also highly recomend a light behind the monitor. I stuck an old lamp back there, but have some LEDs that I used to put an RGB LED version in with.... I just need to mess with the controller a bit more.

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  31. Multiple options by bananaquackmoo · · Score: 2

    BUY A DIFFERENT MONITOR

    No seriously. There are MANY monitor technologies, and some deal better with glare than others. Matte displays, IPS, high DPI, different backlighting technologies, etc

    OR BUY A SHADE (or adjust your external lights):

    Adjust your lighting sources or block them out with a shade. You can buy these box-like things that go around monitors to shade the display by blocking lights. That will cut down on glare entirely since there is no external light to cause it.

    IF THESE DON"T WORK:

    Then you're not talking about glare.

  32. There's a reason for the ADA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There's a reason for the ADA. He's not the only edge case that has a problem with a lot of websites. His disability is not substantially different than folks who use screen magnifiers; the problem is almost identical. While I'm generally opposed to government rules, making reasonable accomodations for disabilities in a fucking webpage is pretty damn cheap.

  33. KDE Inverse Colors by devent · · Score: 1

    So you don't like Black on White but want the background be black?
    In KDE I can make all windows or only one selected window inverse the colors.
    White will become black and black will become white (and green is red and vice versa)
    I tried it for the night when the laptop screen will get too bright.

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  34. Go outside more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Let your eyes get used to a wide variety of intensities and environments.

    Your eyes are just like any other organ in your body, use them properly or lose them.

  35. Gunnar website by greyparrot · · Score: 1

    I took a look at their website and it was all white on black, which to me is barely legible. I am 71 and normally read black on white with no trouble, but have a lot of issues with the new fad for white on varied backgrounds, such as photographs.

    1. Re:Gunnar website by reboot246 · · Score: 1

      I feel your pain. I'll be 60 next month.

      The Gunnar website is more like grey on black instead of white on black. I think they intentionally made it that way to make you think you need their glasses. Kinda like the hearing aid commercials on TV that muffle the sound. :)

      I've noticed a lot of photographic software uses the light grey or white on black for the interface. I use DXO, and it's barely visible to me. At least the photos stand out nicely.

  36. Re:Irlem Syndrome by nospam007 · · Score: 2

    " Greasemonkey scripts to darken commonly used web sites. "

    I second that.

    Also it's the easiest script to try as first.

    http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/94963
    or
    http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/153122

    should get you started.

  37. Accessibility? by tlambert · · Score: 1

    If this is higher contrast for accessibility issues, while there are OS contrast settings, they will generally not correct for bad accessibility design in web sites themselves. This is a web site design issue.

    If a government site, or a site for a government contractor, has accessibility issues, you can force them to fix them via the ADA (American's with Disabilities Act). If it's some other site, and your OS accessibility settings won't handle it, then you need to contact the site maintainers and explain the problem.

  38. Visual Studio has some nice dark themes by cpm99352 · · Score: 1

    I use dark themes in Visual Studio and it was pretty easy to set up. Take a look here or here. This is what I use.

    Google is your friend, too.

    1. Re:Visual Studio has some nice dark themes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Is it some kind of trend to put only "here" and "this" to links these days?

  39. Great, but... by triffid_98 · · Score: 1

    Rather offtopic, but does anyone else have glare sensitivity issues with these new led tail-lights? Most of them are OK, but some of them are almost blinding at night. I'm almost to the point of going full on Corey Hart after half an hour of stop-and-go behind the things.

    "I wear my sunglasses at night, so I can, so I can stand to watch these led tail-lights on certain awful cars.

    And yes, I'm a big fan of green on black, fortunately most editors can still be configured that way.

  40. No scientific method by dutchwhizzman · · Score: 3, Informative

    I looked at the Gunnar Web site and saw no scientific backing of any of their claims. In my opinion, any improvement you'll get from these is 100% due to a placebo effect.

    specifically tuned focusing power - It's your eyes that do the focussing. Air does not distort focussing unless it's extremely hot.

    DIAMIX lens material is optically pure. - So is air. Actually, air is probably more optically pure than DIAMIX.

    IONIK lens tints improve overall contrast and comfort by filtering out harsh artificial light, eliminating UV rays and reducing high-intensity visible light. - So does your eye. You have an iris, lens and your brain automatically corrects for white balance. If your work place behind a computer screen puts you in dangerous UV light, you really need to look at your TFT, since those don't emit UV at all.

    iFi lens coatings include an anti-reflective layers to reduce glare - If there was no lens in the glasses, they wouldn't have to put anti-reflective layers on it. The only reflection those layers partially prevent is the reflection on the glasses themselves.

    TL;DR Snake oil glasses, you've been conned.

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    1. Re:No scientific method by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There is a company - Axon Optics - that provides information on the science behind light sensitivity (photophobia) in general, which applies equally well to fluorescent lighting and computer screens:

      http://www.axonoptics.com/migraine-relief-reviews/references-on-fl-41-and-migraines/

       

    2. Re:No scientific method by turbidostato · · Score: 1

      You are kidding, ain't you?

      Problem with LCDs has nothing to do with fluorescents, and neither then with photophobia. Hint: problems with fluorescent lights comes from alternate current being used.

    3. Re:No scientific method by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That USED to be the problem. Ballasts have gotten much better (on quality CFL's, anyway). The problem now is the color of light emission.

    4. Re:No scientific method by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I think they are just yellow tinted glasses. I needed some glasses for twilight bike riding in the rain (to protect my eyes from rain at speed), and the store I went to had both clear and yellow tinted, so I thought I'd try the yellow tinted. To my surprise, I discovered they helped a little with driving at night: my eyes didn't get as dry, and my endurance and night driving agitation was reduced. Maybe it's placebo, but it was only a mistake that I wore them (I put them on because snow and forgot them on, on a long drive into the night), so...
      Anyways, definitively saying its 100% placebo seems even more misplaced than thinking they could help.

    5. Re:No scientific method by Bovius · · Score: 1

      Maybe. I don't have any data to refute your claims.

      That being said, it's been a long time since I tried to hold a company's marketing material up against the piercing scrutiny of science. I also don't expect most companies to describe in reproducible detail the process they go through to produce their products, or the detailed results of any internal comparison studies they performed. Not for consumer products, anyway.

      It may be a placebo, but it's the most effective placebo I've ever had.

    6. Re:No scientific method by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      You have to learn how to read marketoid speak, then it all makes sense.

      specifically tuned focusing power

      "Low power reading glasses"

      DIAMIX lens material is optically pure.

      "Transparent lenses"

      IONIK lens tints improve overall contrast and comfort by filtering out harsh artificial light, eliminating UV rays and reducing high-intensity visible light.

      iFi lens coatings include an anti-reflective layers to reduce glare

      "Polarized tinted sunglasses"

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    7. Re:No scientific method by hackertourist · · Score: 1

      I've been using yellow glasses for driving at night and in fog, heavy rain etc. They reduce the glare from headlights, and in rain/fog they seem to increase visibility.

      I suspect that this is because (as with sunglasses) they filter out some of the light, reducing the dynamic range your eyes have to deal with, so you end up with less eyestrain.

    8. Re:No scientific method by ThePhilips · · Score: 1

      I looked at the Gunnar Web site and saw no scientific backing of any of their claims. In my opinion, any improvement you'll get from these is 100% due to a placebo effect.

      [... skip ...]

      TL;DR Snake oil glasses, you've been conned.

      Google for "photography yellow filter". References are scarce, because the filters were used in B&W photography, in pre-Internet times. But there are some.

      Alternatively google for "white balance amber" or ask on DSLR forums/check DSLR books about the shit to amber. Or if you have a DSLR, you can even experiment with it yourself: shoot a RAW and in any RAW development tool, play with the blue-yellow gauge in the white balance.

      All in all, as few commented above, those are simply well made yellow glasses. And the effect of yellow filter is known from photography and is not placebo. But also doesn't warrant the Gunnar's price.

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    9. Re:No scientific method by Reziac · · Score: 1

      I have a pair of those yellow sunglasses (generics); great for rain or fog, as they increase contrast, but they're awful for anything else (apparently increase how much of some types of light reach the eye, to the point that I'd get "eyeburns" in sunlight).

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  41. Well-lit room by asmkm22 · · Score: 1

    For me, the best solution has been to just make sure I'm operating in a well-lit room. Doesn't have to be full on halogen lights or anything, but a simple stand lamp somewhere behind you is great. Just turn the brightness down a bit on your monitor, if needed, and that should do it.

    What I can't do anymore is use darker color schemes like green text on black, especially in a dark room. It's fine sometimes, but the moment you open google or something, the contrast is too much.

  42. Yes, or adjust your monitor by dereference · · Score: 2

    Try installing some LEDs on the back of your monitor to illuminate the wall behind the screen.

    Or, if you prefer more moderate or darker ambient lighting, you can simply turn down the brightness of your monitor. I normally keep mine between 10% and 25% of full brightness, and usually adjust the contrast a bit as well.

    For what it's worth, I found this solution by mistake many years ago. I had set my laptop to always use its dimmest setting. It was a power saving feature, meant for use when powered by battery only. Having the screen always dim, I got very used to it that way. I wondered why other laptops started giving me headaches, until I eventually placed mine next to another, and realized it was the intensity of the default (full brightness) settings that was the problem.

    1. Re:Yes, or adjust your monitor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      if you turn down the brightness you lose contrast

    2. Re:Yes, or adjust your monitor by toddestan · · Score: 1

      Sadly that's the case for many of the cheap and nasty 6-bit TN panels out there. The solution is to buy a better quality monitor.

    3. Re:Yes, or adjust your monitor by ergean · · Score: 1

      It's not the brightness, it's the contrast. I can't see shit in low light... I had myopia now after a had crystalline implants I see almost 20/20 at almost any range except in the 0-50cm proximity in low light. I could read at the light of the stars with myopia, now I can't read shit... but I can see the writing. I found that if I have more light (contrast) I can almost read anything a normal person can read.

  43. three suggestions by swschrad · · Score: 1

    (1) wear a basball cap down over your eyebrows.

    (2) stand on the desk and take out all but one fluorescent light tube,.

    (3) see the eye doctor, and get tested fully for cataracts. operate if necessary.

    I have had to follow those steps in that order. if you can't see the road with oncoming traffic at night, make that eye appointment today.

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  44. Since this is Slashdot... by fibonacci8 · · Score: 1

    Be a clod, they're well known for their insensitivity.

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  45. Less extreme solution works for me by Endophage · · Score: 1

    I have issues with super bright screens but I also find bright text on a dark background difficult to read. Have you tried simply using a slightly off white background. By just using a slightly cream or grey (so little off white that you barely notice) it significantly reduces the "glare" you're trying to avoid. When I do like to get old school with light text on dark background, I do the same in reverse, I use a dark grey background, not black, and it then doesn't require the text to be so bright/high contrast to stand out easily. There's something about #000000 and #FFFFFF that make everything worse.

  46. Lamp behind the monitor by Powys · · Score: 1

    Seriously easy thing to try. Get one of the architect like lamps and can bend and move anywhere, put it behind your monitor with the light facing up. This removes the contrast of bright monitor from the dark background. I've had zero eyestrain for years after doing that. You won't use that lamp to read by, it's only to remove the contrast. It's easy and really has helped.

  47. Oh yea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    FIRST

  48. At first I misread the title as... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ask Slashdot: Best Tools For Dealing With Glans Sensitivity?

  49. Redshift by xaxa · · Score: 1

    I realised a few years ago I didn't like the bright, white glare of a screen in the evening (or at night).

    I installed Redshift (check the repository before installing it manually), and now my screen fades to a warmer palette gradually, as the day progresses. The colour temperature changes to match the outside light. The first time I enabled it at night and the screen changed I could feel my eyes relaxing.

    Another option is to leave everything as black-on-white, then invert the screen. KDE has a graphics effect that does this -- either for the whole screen or a single window -- and I'm told there are add-ons for Windows that can do the same thing.

  50. Use High Contrast Mode by chentiangemalc · · Score: 1

    Speaking of Office & Visual Studio, sounds like you're in Windows...just need to enable High Contrast mode, a Windows settings - this will give office & visual studio black backgrounds...

  51. Horrible UI in genreal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Visual Studio 2012 default UI theme is horrible. It's on par however with Windows 8 on the desktop for the worst UI experience. Microsoft etc need to start listening to the user base and maybe then they will understand how to design a product that works rather then going on some experiment / joy ride at the customers expense.

  52. Work in console mode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Use vim, and disable X server, or just stop being fussy.

  53. Mac/iOS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    On OS X or iOS, you can invert the screen.

    It's not very good for photos/etc but it is perfectly reliable and works with any third party app or website.

    They both offer a quick shortcut to briefly snap the display in and out of inverted mode, so you can see photos/etc as they're meant to be.

  54. stop using drugs by ozduo · · Score: 1

    after a couple of months your irises will function properly.

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  55. check out FL-41 filter for eyeglasses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I told my physical therapist that I was very sensitive to light he recommended that I get some glasses that had an FL-41 filter applied to them. It blocks out much of the light above 500 nm, which seems to cause the most eyestrain. It has worked wonders for me.

  56. Illuminated keyboard, darkened room, reduced... by Paracelcus · · Score: 1

    Illuminated keyboard, darkened room, reduced monitor brightness, helps me and I wear fitovers in density 3 outside.

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  57. For X11 users.... by nadaou · · Score: 1

    xcalib -a -i

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  58. screens are not paper (Re:LED Screens) by tconnors · · Score: 1

    Most fonts appear to have smoother edges and more consistent curves when rendered as black-text-on-white background, which is why that is the default ...

    Er, what?

    The web colour scheme was around since well before anti-aliasing was common. And has been annoying all that time. If it was easier to read, why would most sysadmins have green-on-black coloured xterms?

    I did once compile xdark, and you can invoke "xdark 1 0" to reverse video the entire screen, but I never got into the habit of using it regularly. I just try to minimise my time on the web instead (haha, yeah nah).

    You might want to put a keybinding into your window manager to toggle invocations of "xdark 1 0" and "xdark 0 1" for those moments when you need accurate colour representation.

    Heck, some of my laptop screens have been too bright on their darkest setting. Then you run "xdark 0 0.4" to give you a bit of relief.

  59. Thinkpad or similar matte display. by couchslug · · Score: 1

    I spend way more time on the internet than I should, but find the matte WUXGA display on my T61 very comfortable to use.

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  60. Threat-sensitive glasses by Nefarious+Wheel · · Score: 1

    Dude. They go dark whenever an auditor or third party software salesman walks in.

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  61. An automobile solution that works wonders by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There are these screens meant for use in automobiles which are usually black plastic (or nylon or cloth) with holes evenly spaced in them. You can see through them just fine from a relatively short distance, and they still let light in. The purpose of them is to diffuse the light before it creates a blinding glare on the driver and passenger, and it works exceptionally well towards this end. I use a couple of them on the windows in my computer room and living room on the windows that direct sunlight comes through during the day. They are cheap as well, can buy them for anywhere from $2 to $20 depending on how large of one you need, they attach to the window with suction cups.

    Have been using those things for a few years now. Glare is a big problem for my type of programming, I work with graphics code a lot, so I need to be able to see if some odd shader or rendering technique is producing the color ranges it should. Until I started to use those things, I had to wait until night to get any graphics code done because the glare was washing out the higher and lower ends of the gamut.

  62. See your eye doctor. by mikelieman · · Score: 1

    I had a similar problem. And then I had my cataracts fixed.

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  63. Large percentage has issues with bright light by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A large segment of the population has problem with light sensitivity or light induced headaches.
    I am surprised no company in the software/hardware industry has realized this.

    I personally have put up this problem for many years.

  64. f.lux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Try f.lux

    http://stereopsis.com/flux/

    Reduces glare and adjusts the color temperature of your screen to more comfortable levels.

  65. Surprised nobody has mentioned Solarized by stratdesign · · Score: 1

    Nifty, well thought out colorscheme (in both "dark" and "light" versions). Even has a VS theme (as well as Putty, Vim, etc.). Anything not directly supported that can have custom themes/color settings can be set to mimic it fairly closely. And it really is easy on the eyes. I personally prefer Solarized-Dark when staring at code.
    http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

  66. You need reverse video by hippo · · Score: 1

    The world seems to be fixated on computer screens looking like paper and some of us really do get on better with light text and dark backgrounds. It's a bit like being left-handed only with headaches.

    I have in the past used a hacked VNC viewer that flips the bits in each pixel and it works wonderfully but requires a Linux box just to do that and it won't handle video.

    ISTR an nVidia graphics card that would let you fiddle with the colour adjustment tables of the RGB outputs (3 of 256*8 bits) to get the same effect but modern ones don't let you.

    I would love someone to build a cheap FPGA board that could handle DVI in and out then I could take it anywhere.

  67. Fuchs' Dystrophy by freshfromthevat · · Score: 1

    Some people who have glare problems have Fuchs' Dystrophy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs'_dystrophy

    One of the key symptoms is that the problem is much worse after waking up and is not so noticeable after 6 or 8 hours.

    For persons having this issue, putting lights behind the monitor is not a solution. Working in a nearly dark room is also not a solution because the glare from what light sources remain make it very difficult to see anything except the light sources. Setting the UIs to light on dark is definitely helpful.

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  68. Opthomologist is your friend by AG+the+other · · Score: 1

    This can be a symptom of some eye conditions. Seriously get yourself to a good Ophthalmologist, someone that knows eye conditions, not just someone that sells eye glasses.
    Personally I just had a cornea transplant and I can see much better.

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  69. High Contrast Google Chrome extension by tobia.conforto · · Score: 1

    As has already been said, most large desktop applications can be put into reverse video with some suitable combination of OS settings and application themes or color schemes.

    Not the web. Unfortunately, most websites employ a complex layout made of text, CSS, and images, not to mention Javascript, that makes it very hard to enforce any kind of user CSS rules.

    For this reason I've found the High Contrast Google Chrome extension a godsend. It allows you to invert the colors of the entire website, not just the text. It does so by applying a visual filter to the entire rendered page. You can choose among a few builtin settings (grayscale, full color invert, black and white inverted, and such) and set site-specific preferences, for example to leave alone sites that are already white on black.

    With a bit of tweaking you can even create your own settings, by editing the extension's CSS file. On my Mac the file is found at ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/djcfdncoelnlbldjfhinnjlhdjlikmph/0.4_0/highcontrast.css. I've edited its default "Inverted Color" settings so that it only inverts the luminance: I want red things to stay red and green ones to stay green (think red flags and green checkmarks) but with the luminance inverted, so that light things become dark and the other way around.

    Here is my patch, if you'd like to try it out. You'll have to remove the main a3 rule and the ones dealing with jpeg files, and put this in their place:

    html[hc="a3"] { -webkit-filter: invert() hue-rotate(180deg) brightness(20%) contrast(130%); }

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  72. Try this little program on WIndows 7 or 8 by hippo · · Score: 1

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