On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 09:02:10AM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, February 02, 2018 09:30:10 PM Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 06:10:57PM +0000, Alexander Ross wrote:
Re Webpage background, heh yea im the opposite, i find it harder to read a white/light background. saying that my email client is set to use light blue... lately ive been using owl firefox addon[1] for changing websites themes to a dark one. found it to give me relief from eye strain :).
I prefer light text on a dark background. Especially at night, when the screen otherwise becomes glaringly bright. It also reduces flicker on slow-refresh monitors.
And as for the letter-thinning you experience with white text -- that's exactly what I perceive with white text! I think it is an effect of slight lack of focus. with a bright background it eaats into the letter shapes, but if the shapes become a little blurry they are still quie readable.
I son't understand how the opposite effect which you report arises.
I guess you mean why I see that thinning effect with light text on a dark background? Interesting.
I guess it could be:
- our eyes trained differently
- our eyes function differently--I have astigmatism, but it is corrected by
my glasses so I don't think that is a factor
- different tools on our computers render the fonts differently? (I'm not
sure I know what, in the end, actually renders the fonts on my computer--is it X (assuming my Wheezy installation is using X), or is it different for different apps?
I did find a bug report not too long ago for some application which actually confirmed the bias I described, and described how that worked (in general terms)--I'll make a cursory search or try to remember where I found that, and, if I do, I'll post it here.
Of course, the one URL which Florian posted did provide some reasons why dark text on a light background is generallly better for your eyes (iirc the article).
https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/53264/dark-or-white-color-theme-is- better-for-the-eyes#
It argues that with more light the eye has more information to use to focus properly.
But if focus isn't proper for whatever reason, I think white letters becoming blurry are more readable than white background invading the thin black lines.
I discovered this long ago in the days of fuzzy CRTs. I wonder what physical media those experiments werre carried out with.
-- hendrik