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December 18th, 2008 2 Comments

On a screen, I cannot read white text on black. I know I’m not alone in finding it totally unfathomable that advertisers, publishers and web designers persist in using white on black, when all research shows that people don’t like it.

Well, after searching on the web I discovered that while I am certainly not the only one, there are also plenty of people who are quite happy with it. (These must be the ones who become web designers.)

In case you are one of those people, and you can’t understand why I’m making such a fuss, let me be clear: if I get to a web page with white text on black, even if I know it has something of interest, I will leave the site. It has an unpleasant effect on my vision, much like the effect of op art. If I really need to read it I’ll just copy the text, but surely I shouldn’t have to do this.

I do like dark backgrounds for some things. For photographs they can work well, which is why I originally used a dark background for my photography site, and why I still retain that option on the page.

Anyway, see this post as a quick update, and I hope to post up something more meaty in the new year. Have a great Christmas people!

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