Colours – Again
Posted: Wed 22 February, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: D4D™, Own Business, Thinking About..., Web Development, Work-related |1 Comment »OK, so I was about right in what I figured, regarding website colours and so on.
As with most things – some people like it, some people hate it, and the majority don’t seem to care one way or t’other. Figures.
However, the experiment between “Worksafe” and “Inverted” wasn’t just about people’s reactions to colour, it was also about which produced less eye-strain after a while using it. My personal preference is still for light text on dark backgrounds, whereas most people seem to prefer dark-on-light. I’d guess that’s down to being used to newsprint, and print in general, with black ink on white/whiteish paper.
I do find that after a solid day of looking at a white background to work on, my eyes can be quite tired. It’s the constant “glare” of a predominantly white screen day in, day out, that seems to have an effect. And on that score, light text on a dark background seems to produce less eye-strain, and less headaches.
But from the look of it, on the commercial things I’m doing, I’m going to have to go with dark-on-light as a preference on the colour schemes. I might put in a colour-switcher similar to d4d™ though, just to give people the option (and, of course, so I can have my preferred light-on-dark scheme for working on the bugger x hours a day!)
As always, any thoughts or responses will be greatfully received…
For longevity i do tend to use a black background when using CAD….something I use all day some days. But I do switch, and i can’t tell you why. I have been using the inverted D4D since you introduced it and I do prefer it now, it just makes my screen look a bit ‘goth’ like…….all black (but with a lack of dripping blood and skulls). Previously it used to make me laugh when people spotted me skiving all the way across the office because I had a lurid yellow D4D screen…..no-one has noticed this one so far.