CptAwesome — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:29:49 +0000

I've got a severe eyesight problem and because of the way my vision works, black text on white background kills me. If I am going to use a computer for longer than a couple hours, it almost has to have white text on black background.

I don't understand exactly how people can stand staring at what's basically a 17 or 19 inch lightbulb for hours on end.

So 90% of design I do for my own sites is white on black, or white on red, but light on dark, high contrast. In fact, the input box I type into right now is white on black, based on my windows settings and I highlight a lot of pages when they don't use proper contrast, which tends to be annoying. What's more annoying is when sites define input/text box background colours, but not font colours, so it's white on white for me.

I've heard people comment on how white on black hurts their eyes before, I (and my mom with the same eye disorder) are the opposite.

Roo — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 21:36:21 +0000

Yes, white on black hurts if it's a lot of text. A few lines, or a menu I find okay. Gray on black isn't bad.

Renegade — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 10:31:10 +0000

Busy wrote: I've got a black/white site (two actually) and one has red links on hover both are popular(ish) sites but could do with being updated

Like I said, generally new to web design

Hehehe, just kidding

Busy — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:53:43 +0000

grey text on black isn't so bad

I've got a black/white site (two actually) and one has red links on hover both are popular(ish) sites but could do with being updated

Renegade — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 09:39:21 +0000

Yeah... what you'll find though is that, people who do that are generally new to web design

I've been guilty of doing that myself in the early days...

02bunced — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 06:21:14 +0000

No, you're not. White arial text on a black background is just about bearable, but uncomfortable. Times New Roman white on a black background is unbearable though, and I just leave the site!