[Novalug] OT: monitor distance

Ed T. Toton III bones@necrobones.net
Fri Nov 9 11:59:22 EST 2007


Thus spake Ed James:

> I sort of approach this equality a bit differently.  I set my system 
> colors for black background and white foreground (text).  It makes for 
> about 20 watts less power needed for my old CRTs.  Eyestrain is also a 
> lot less for me, even when the ambient light is on the low side. I 
> understand that there are studies as to which color combinations are 
> best for human eyes, and I seem to recall that green text was best, but 
> it's a hazy memory.  I prefer the greater contrast with white text since 
> it seems to help reduce the frequency of me mis- reading stuff.


Yeah, all my ssh terminals are grey on black... ye olde colors work best 
for me. I have enough web-browsers open that are black on white, that it 
all evens out in the long run. :)


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