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Subject:Re: The Ten Commandments of HTML From:Karen Kay <karen -at- WORDWRITE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:56:36 -0700
E,T, Hull said:
> > Black or brown backgrounds are bad; so are nubbly patterns. Type color
> > too similar to background disappears. Light type colors are usually
> > bad.
>
>
> Black background is very good IF the text is white or yellow.
Maybe for you; I can't read them on either my Sun at work or my PC at
home. Believe me, I have tried. I *could* maybe find a default font
that would work okay on dark backgrounds, but frankly, I don't think
it's the reader's obligation to reconfigure their machine to read your
web page.
Karen
human -dot- again! -at- wordwrite -dot- com
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