OK, here's my first stab at it. (96K img)

Methinks prec\ufffdsam\ufffdnte versa vice.

Think about...
all that reflected WHITE with teensy black letters - which we have 'read', all along, before there was any alternative. Then think about the natural settings,
the Earthscape Before ...
meddlesome techno interpreted every change as: improvement.

Yes, we can.. sorta ~accustom to anything - like cubicles, traffic noise, visual-reading noise. But the retina despises us for doing so. (IMhO)

(I always reset backgrounds for pastels, as PURE WHITE on any illuminated screen is the Worst of all possible worlds.) For ex. - this composition space is bluish; any other shade one fancies would do - but greys in this use are more akin to why neutral sunglasses are grey: they do not alter the eye's (remembered) apparent color balance, when switching focus to some included image.

ie I demur.
Peter is actually doing something constructive.. whereas I have been lazy about eliminating the remaining too-much-WHITE space. Even here. Where Giants roam the six-dementia save-face space. [a complex mathematical expression - don't think about it.]

Get thee to a nunnery, Brenda! (or have a small conversation with your retinal gluons)

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You don't Have to agree with me on this; but if you know what's good for you . . .

Get thee to a nunnery, Brenda! (or have a small conversation with your retinal gluons)

You don't Have to agree with me on this; but if you know what's good for you . . .

I've talked to my optometrist a lot about this, and darker background screens with pastel text colors tend to give me a headache. We didn't know if it was from eye-strain, or just the color, but it almost always happens. The only exception was the DOS mode, where large bright letters were on black, but that was all and I only edited in VI there, I didn't read.

He also thought it might be in part to the fact that I often sit online into the wee hours with most of the room dark and then the only bright area is the computer screen, so having the computer screen dark is hard at those times. And even in the daytime, I rarely have the blinds open (one, my bird is loose most of the time), so it's dim in here other than artificial lighting.

I like the shades of light grey and pastel cool colors like blues, greens, purples, etc., with black on that for the most part. Bright yellow backgrounds make me want to run screaming from the room, as do orange and reds.I've coped with some of the garish color schemes chosen by others in Yahoo groups, but I can only do it for a short time, so none othe ones I actually run are color schemed like that.

But I think it's a great idea to have the option available for others, and I agree that Peter is doing something really constructive for IWT. :)

Brenda

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