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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
dear god please no !!!
despite what some might think, it's actually MUCH more tiring for the eyes to read light text on a dark background for any length of time, with some exceptions.
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Why do you say that? Can you point to any studies?
Do you remember Dsiegel's web wonk? He was a typographer that had a web site on how to make a web site usable and readable. He talked about this issue, colors and contrast. He didn't suggest a dark foreground with light foreground, but did suggest a muted color for the background.
The web site isn't up any more but I'm pretty sure it can be found in the internet archive. While the typography stuff all applies today the layout methods he specified are very arcane now that we have the new CSS 2.x and HTML 4 stuff.
Yes, here it is, I found it.
http://web.archive.org/web/200604280...egel.com/tips/
Read the Netscape Background Colors test topic.
It seems the current dsiegel.com is a different person. THe about me in the way back machine says:
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Hi. I'm David Siegel, author of Web Wonk. I am a type designer, typographer, writer, and web-site designer. I received a Master's degree in Digital Typography from Stanford University in 1986, where I studied under Donald Knuth and Charles Bigelow. I spent a year at Pixar, then I started working for myself, designing typefaces like Tekton and Graphite, both of which are available from Adobe Systems.
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But the current web site says:
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My name is David Siegel. I'm an Internet entrepreneur and author, husband and father, world traveler and vegetarian. Professionally, I'm an investor with concentrations on Cambodia and the Semantic Web. I believe the Semantic Web will transform our lives in the next ten years, and I'm going to be part of it by explaining how it works to people. Watch for my new book on the Semantic Web in 2009.
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Although in both his sites title is still Casbah.
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