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Originally Posted by thechansen
Well what I was getting at was color it self doesn't change the meaning of the words on screen, but I can see it being overused and gimmicky. Black and (off)white really provides the ideal color scheme for reading plain text. That was a bit of leap from where I was headed with my comment.
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Plain text is better in B&W. Novels don't need color, although color covers would be nice.
However, many technical & scientific books would be greatly enhanced by color; a lot of charts are much harder to read in black & white. Color's a terrific way for pointing out important information in a complex set of data.
And books about history--pretty much any kind of history--are better with color photo options. Ditto books about wildlife. Books about crafts, whether stone, wood, yarn, or glass, are more useful with color images.
That's without getting into magazine and coffee-table art book issues.
Yes, there'd be abuses. Self-published blog collections with color smilies all over the place, and seven different fonts on a page, and half the text in purple script. We can ignore those, and focus on the usefulness of four-color maps and photos that let you know what kind of bug that is.