My biggest gripe about the default GNOME settings. Are there any sickos that use black text on white?
Are there any sickos that use black text on white?
hello!
black text on white with comic sans. lol
I can see comic sans making it more usable
A variable width font in a terminal???
Use this instead: https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code
it’s not actually comic sans, it’s something like this and i think i like this better; thanks for making me aware of it.
Are there any sickos that use black text on white?
IIRC that’s the default on macOS if the theme is in light mode instead of dark mode. So probably.
Every terminal program I used allows you to set its colours independent of the global theme.
And I think all programs should follow user theming, regardless of desktop environment, widget set, or anything else. ('Scuse me while I give GTK4 the stinkeye again.) You can never tell whether someone’s colour selection is a matter of accessibility rather than just personal preference, so you absolutely should not ignore it. Defaults matter very little as long as you can change them.
Yeah, stopthemingmy.app feels crazy to me to be coming from the open-source community.
I first read this as…
Stop them in my app.
Pure black background makes it unreadable for me. When I encountered this on websites, i use the Firefox function to turn it into a black on white background theme, so my eyes don’t hurt reading longer text. Same logic applies to the terminal, especially when programming. I think pure black as a background shouldn’t be default. However I do actually appreciate darker tones as background, but its never pure black. It depends on the combination of colors for text (and on the rest of the system theme).
Try having astigmatism, white text on a black background is physically painful
Are there any sickos that use black text on white?
Hi.
I think the other way around: I read black letters on white paper when I read a book; why shouldn’t it be the same on a screen? I find the black background more fatiguing for the eyes.
why shouldn’t it be the same on a screen?
ooh ooh I know!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_modelOn paper, you use the subtractive colour model, so the light is reflected off the page, and the text is taking away from what’s reflected.
On a screen, you use the additive colour model, so seeing brighter colours means more lights have to be shined directly into your eyes.If you are finding white/bright text on dark backgrounds difficult to read, adjust your font size settings/thicknesses or check your eyesight out.
That’s not a reason
Most studies I read have light background (and dark text) as the preferable choice. Most people use too high a brightness setting.
“sickos”? Seriously? Ableist bullshit.
Also, ever heard of sunlight? Not all people use computers exclusively at night…
