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[learnedax]

The drive from Dorchester to Waltham is not a bad one. Even at midnight. Even in the pouring rain.

What is bad is realizing that you cannot use 93 while en route.

This time I lose.

Comments

[jducoeur]

And I have to ask, given the comments you've made about *my* journal colors in the past: is your journal actually readable to you? The black on grey is incredibly exhausting to my eyes. I'm suspecting that Safari's color rendering really must be dramatically different from Firebird's, given our mutual problems with each others' color schemes...

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Nope, I use Firefox (guess its name this week!) at work and the LJ rendering is virtually identical to my Safari. To me the grey's light enough for it to be non-straining, and the only real problem I have with yours is that the red-on-blue has a disturbing throbbing quality to it.

I'm not trivially finding good sites to cite, but there is some evidence that lower contrast than black-and-white is easier to read. I prefer light-grey-on-dark-grey, actually, but when I tried that for LJ it just looked wrong.

In the end it's probably much more personal perception and preference than rendering differences (though monitor-specific color temperature could also play a role). Even so I think combining intense primary colors is liable to cause headaches for many readers.

[jducoeur]

Interesting. I find the color scheme that I'm using totally innocuous, but the black-on-grey gives me almost instant eyestrain due to insufficient contrast. Very good example of how far perceptions can vary...