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light on dark vs readability
An interesting post by Roger Johansson on light on dark and reability:
I know I am not the only person to find it very uncomfortable to read text on sites with inverted, high contrast designs.
I clearly disagree with that statement, and was very happy to see a rebuttal by Veerle Pieters:
I think that most accessibility/usability experts have no clue how hard life of a designer really is.
It's impossible to make it work for everybody, 100% perfection is utopia.
As we've previously discussed the choice of monitor may well affect the readability of text, with most people moving to LCD monitors, maybe the designers are ahead the curve.
Ice
http://www.lodowski.euIn general you've got right Roger...
but there's a one more difference between the bright tones and the darkest ones...
2 words - feeling and sophistication,
Sometimes the darkest background looks more conservative and last but not least from the theory of colour and optics - dark background tends to concentrate our attention on the clue of design... the brightest tends to distract
james
http://www.factorizer.co.ukHi, i'm the author of Factorizer - I saw your site in the logs.
I agree it's incredibly hard to read light on dark sites, some seem to burn the lines of text into your eyes if you've been staring at them for too long.
Anyway I think I need glasses really, this 19" lcd doesn't seem to help anything.
miriam feder
miriamfeder.comI do struggle with readability on sites--middle aged eyes here. But I often think lite on dark is easier to read. It helps me focus on my reading and doesn't scream at me from around the page.I think font choice can do a lot to solve these problems. Angular is better. (for me.) I'm working on a major redesign so my current site is not a "do as I do."