Light or Dark Backgrounds and Fonts - What Works Best for You

This thread is for discussion of and experimentation with "light or dark backgrounds, fonts, and colors". What works best for you just may provide an improvement for me!

For years, those of us with eye problems have had difficulty reading the computer screen because of the bright white background and light gray font presented. We have long begged Microsoft to give us a choice between a dark and light background. Microsoft and other OEMs finally listened and we now have choices! We're not there yet, but we're getting closer!

As with coding, sometimes a new feature will break something else. In the case of dark backgrounds, colors can be broken. The worst "offender" for me is bolded blue!

As an example, I use Windows 10 and when I run "winver", I get bright white! Ugh!



The best description I can give for this is . . . It's like walking outside into bright sunlight!

So, let's all check out our fave backgrounds, fonts, and colors and see if we can improve our vision to the point of being eye-comfortable when working on the computer.

Here's a prime example, which isn't the OP's fault. I think it's Nvidia instead . . .

Latest NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Drivers for Windows 10 [2]

Corona said:

I like gray or any neutral color as a reading background. Black and white are horrible. That's how Beethoven went deaf.

Edwin said:

When book readers and tablets started using black backgrounds with white text, many physicians claimed it was the worst thing for eye fatigue.

Well, my eyes are real thankful for the dark background with white font!

So, there, take that, you . . . you . . . physicians!