[TxMt] Light Text/Black Background?!?

[Allan Odgaard]

On Apr 6, 2005, at 11:02, David Lee wrote:

> to my mind it depends on the ambient light a lot as well. Dark b/g 
> seems to make a lot more sense late at night ..

Yes -- I think the thesis is something like, the majority of space is 
the background color, if this is dark/black, your eye will not pick up 
much light, and thus will be dilated. This means that the retina is 
more exposed and the “bright” white text will affect it more (how bad 
for your eyes this actually is, I don't know).

If OTOH the background is white, your eyes will be less dilated, and 
thus, even though the intensity of the white background is the same as 
the white text (in the dark color scheme) your eyes will be affected 
less by it (since they are less dilated).

So the key is to find a color scheme where the most dominant color is 
around the same intensity or brighter than the lesser used colors -- I 
think the current dark color schemes for TextMate does this very well.

And just for the records, I'm not a doctor, so if you do ruin your eyes 
by looking at grey text on a black background, do not blame me! ;)