Refreshing
Refreshing
Posted Jun 11, 2021 12:19 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Refreshing by nix
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
> Obviously the colourblind, people with tunnel vision or people who are actually blind are rightly going to think this is not a discussion that could affect them!
That's funny because I was the only guy in our class who never had any vision problems. Never needed glasses neither for reading nor for driving, passed all these medical color-tests with flying colors, etc.
> Dark blue on black is almost guaranteed to be hard to read right back to the days of the oldest colour-capable DEC terminalsWhat about blue on blue (like immensely popular in xUSSR Norton Commander? I still use that scheme (because it's a default in Midnight Commander) and like it.
> Can *anyone* read dark blue on black easily?Yes. Me. Dark blue is perfectly fine. Novadays I have slight trouble reading bright yellow or bright blue on black. But dark ones are perfectly fine.
> ... hm, maybe it's just that newer LCDs have a wider colour gamut than older LCDs (which should lead to dark blue being further separated from black), and both my LCD screens *are* quite old random Samsungs.Maybe, but that's irrelevant. I liked blue on blue back when I used ViewSonic PT810 and I like this setting now.