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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

[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...