From: Rosen, Robert (NIAMS) (rosenr_at_mail.nih.gov)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 17:52:21 EST
And if it had been black on yellow, it would have been like my old slide
rule (when we previously had the color debates on black on white vs black on
yellow).
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Robert Rosen
Chief Information Officer
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal
and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
Tel: 301-496-0799
E-Mail: rosenr_at_mail.nih.gov
jberry_at_islandnet.com wrote:
Twenty years ago I learned "everything I know about the
subject" from a book "Systems Analysis" published by IBM. It
talked about things like legibility on paper. The top colour
combo was deep blue on white. Also up there were our old
favourite black on white, but also white on blue and yellow on
black!
I wonder if this research has been brought up to date for
viewing on monitors? They might need separate results for LCD,
TFT, CRT, mono ... monitors, I don't know.
I am writing this message on my favourite old DOS editor
(monospaced with a bitmap font) with the foreground colour as
yellow (E) and the background colour as red-maroon (4). Sound
horrific? I've been using it with great pleasure for years.
In Windows apps, with their often spidery true-type fonts, I
use a background of yellow which I find less glaring than the
customary white. All this on a TFT TP 600E, and previously on
a TFT TP 701C. YMMV.
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