Black background and white text = eyes pain

Vito wrote 07/18/2015 at 10:32 • 1 point

Am I the only one having this problem?

Is there any hacker out there who could make a browser plugin to make Hackaday less painful, or do you have any suggestion?

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Jozef wrote 03/02/2023 at 10:58

This is a pain. Some people think if they use black background they are hackers. For some people, the black background doesn't work.

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Sanjay Vamja wrote 03/12/2021 at 18:02

this is painful. and the chrome plugin shared above is also deleted! @hackaday, pls provide an option!

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graham wrote 04/25/2019 at 03:17

Also the dark grey hyperlinks are unreadable, and the 'dark yellow' page elements nearly so.

Come on Hackaday, this is a serious UI snafu.

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Aaron Cooper wrote 08/28/2015 at 20:42

does highlighting the text help? (white on blue)

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Michele Perla wrote 07/19/2015 at 15:05

As someone else already pointed out, it's scientifically proven that reading white on black on a monitor is less painful to the eyes. Example: I always work with black background on Eagle CAD (you can see that on my schematics and layouts images in the projects). Anyway, every OS or browser should have the "invert colors" option under accessibility settings.

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Vito wrote 07/23/2015 at 14:30

Do you mean in the long run? I really feel immediate discomfort when reading white on black. It doesn't happen with black on white. In any case, I need to keep brightness low.

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Michele Perla wrote 07/23/2015 at 18:48

Yeah I do mean in the long run, but you can also feel short-term effects. Try one day with black on white, and a day with white on black. You should actually feel your eyes less tired.

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Vito wrote 07/23/2015 at 14:31

thanks that works!

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Rost wrote 07/18/2015 at 15:53

I think it would be nice to inrease a contrast of a color theme

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kodera2t wrote 07/18/2015 at 11:08

If you are using OSX, check on "invert colours" in Accessibility control panel may work...?

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Black background and white text = eyes pain

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