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Subject:Re: color of text & on-screen readability From:Kat Nagel/MasterWork <katnagel -at- EZNET -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 7 Nov 1995 13:28:19 -0400
MJ Fitzgibbons wrote:
>the program I use for reading my e-mail, was set
>up with a black background and blue letters.
>(snip)
>What do *you* recommend? Should I also consider changing the black background?
Trash it. Now, before it drives you stark staring bonkers.
I use black-text-on-white-bkgd for email, as well as for the documents I
write. And my on-screen desktop is a nice soft gray. No eyestrain. No
'color-shadows' when I look away from the screen at the real world.
Why do I get the feeling that most screen designs were committed by
four-year-olds playing with their first box of Crayolas(R)?
@Kat_____ Kat Nagel
MasterWork Consulting Services Rochester, NY
LIFE1 (techwriting/docdesign) katnagel -at- eznet -dot- net
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