Talk:Light-on-dark color scheme
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For a November 2004 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/White-on-black color scheme
Can we have some evidence for this please? Cites? The Anome
- At various times I have heard "black on white", "white on black", "dark blue on light blue", "orange on black" and "pale yellow on dark blue" all advocated by some study or another to be the "best" colour scheme. I take all this with a pinch of salt -- Chris Q 11:38 Mar 5, 2003 (UTC)
I don't think anyone seriously would advocate text on a light background being best, except for WYSIWYG applications. Kim Bruning 20:59, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Black text on a plain background elicited reliably faster reading performance than on a medium-textured background. When compared to reading light text on a dark background, people read black text on a white background up to thirty-two percent faster. In general, the greater the contrast between the text and background, the easier the text is to read.
-- Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines, 2006 (chapter 11, page 2; http://usability.gov/pdfs/chapter11.pdf ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Myfonj (talk • contribs) 00:42, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merge with Dark-on-light color scheme
How should we merge these - perhaps to high-contrast color scheme? But that would be more suggestive of an OS-wide high contrast theme... any suggestions? « Aaron Rotenberg « Talk « 05:10, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
