They say dark background sites are bad but ... - Beyond Tiki

T Tiki-bot Member Joined: Jun 24, 2002 Posts: 1345	T Tiki-bot Posted posted on Fri, Mar 18, 2005 9:26 AM I don't know where you're reading that, but dark backgrounds are definitely harder to read large blocks of text on. They are fine for a sentence or two, but not for reading long texts. It's not about the color, it's the contrast. TC has a nice, middling amount of contrast that makes it easy on the eyes - Hanford's a good designer, whaddaya expect? Conversely, it's always easy to tell who is colorblind when you land on a page with huge chunks of purple or neon blue text on black. That makse my eyeballs fell like they are gonna pop out.

I don't know where you're reading that, but dark backgrounds are definitely harder to read large blocks of text on. They are fine for a sentence or two, but not for reading long texts. It's not about the color, it's the contrast. TC has a nice, middling amount of contrast that makes it easy on the eyes - Hanford's a good designer, whaddaya expect? Conversely, it's always easy to tell who is colorblind when you land on a page with huge chunks of purple or neon blue text on black. That makse my eyeballs fell like they are gonna pop out.

Post #147695 by Tiki-bot on Fri, Mar 18, 2005 9:26 AM