Background and Font Colours

Brianrh · 10-23-2012, 08:57 AM

I've been playing around with background and font colours in Moon+ Reader on my smartphone to get a comfortable combination. After reading with e ink devices which seem fairly natural to read with, LED displays always feel a bit awkward and not completely satisfying. Even black text on a white background doesn't seem to be that good.

I am contemplating getting a tablet to use as my main reading device plus other uses, but wonder if the colours can be adjusted to give the same reading experience as an e ink reader?

Have any of you come across this same situation and what colour combination did you end up with?

Brian

Yapyap · 10-23-2012, 10:02 AM

In my experience, one can't get the same reading experience as with eInk due to the light intensity being so different on backlit devices (even with the lighting dialled down), but pretty much every reader application that I've tried on both my iPad and Android smartphone do offer some font/background selections.

Some ebook shop apps (Kindle and Kobo among them) offer only a very basic selection (black on white, black on sepia, white on black) - with those, if I use a backlit reader, I prefer black text on sepia background. Others offer full customisation (I'm fairly sure Aldiko does on Android), so you can choose whatever font/background combination you're most comfortable with, e.g. black text on off-white/grey background to get it to look more like eInk.

10-23-2012, 08:57 AM	#1
Brianrh Connoisseur Posts: 84 Karma: 559550 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Swindon, UK Device: Kindle	Background and Font Colours I've been playing around with background and font colours in Moon+ Reader on my smartphone to get a comfortable combination. After reading with e ink devices which seem fairly natural to read with, LED displays always feel a bit awkward and not completely satisfying. Even black text on a white background doesn't seem to be that good. I am contemplating getting a tablet to use as my main reading device plus other uses, but wonder if the colours can be adjusted to give the same reading experience as an e ink reader? Have any of you come across this same situation and what colour combination did you end up with? Brian

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10-23-2012, 10:02 AM	#2
Yapyap Guru Posts: 861 Karma: 3543721 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Estonia Device: Kindle Paperwhite, iPad 3, Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge	In my experience, one can't get the same reading experience as with eInk due to the light intensity being so different on backlit devices (even with the lighting dialled down), but pretty much every reader application that I've tried on both my iPad and Android smartphone do offer some font/background selections. Some ebook shop apps (Kindle and Kobo among them) offer only a very basic selection (black on white, black on sepia, white on black) - with those, if I use a backlit reader, I prefer black text on sepia background. Others offer full customisation (I'm fairly sure Aldiko does on Android), so you can choose whatever font/background combination you're most comfortable with, e.g. black text on off-white/grey background to get it to look more like eInk.

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