From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 20:30:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C022C37B66D for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 78226 invoked by uid 100); 12 Oct 2000 03:30:50 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14821.12394.388594.838129@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 22:30:50 -0500 (CDT) To: Jeffrey Vehrs Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what's the best color in xterm background for ur eyes?? In-Reply-To: <112487319@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeffrey Vehrs writes: > I'd like to know which color is the best for your eyes in xterm background? > Some color can strain ur eyes, but which one is good for ur eyes without any > straining? Mu. There are so many variables in this one that any answer will be wrong under some conditions. Off the top of my head: display technology; ambient lighting; the users sensitivity to colors and display frequency; the dominant *foreground* color. If you're really worried about eyestrain, use big fonts. Set the colors to things that contrast without clashing. Black on white works really well in many situtations - if the display technology can deliver a clean enough white for your eyes. Personally, I like the barest hint of blue in the white, but that's just me.