Bradley M. KühnDec 12
For 33 years, My terminal windows've been #FFFFFF background w/ #00000 text. My thinking when I was 18 years old was that I wanted my windows on the computer to look like paper. I generally only used #FFFFFF on #000000 on airplanes as laptop LCDs could be seen from more angles that way.
With so much display in my face, I am wondering if this is too intense, so I'm trying #FFFFFF on #00000 for a while.
BTW, for #Emacs, I always (&still) use #000000 on #e5e5e5 (or "linen"), which is a bit softer.
Show threadTom RiniDec 12
@bkuhn Have you ever looked at the solarized color schemes?
Show threadBradley M. KühnDec 12

@trini My goodness, I feel old as I didn't even know what that is!

I just read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarized & in fact my #000000 on #e5e5e5 Emacs colors look very close to solarized Base3. (My Emacs windows look a lot like: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Solarized_Light_Xcode_4_Theme_%285592863390%29.png (except I don't write Objective-C of course🤣).

So maybe I actually invented light solarized in 1993 when I picked black-on-linen the fist time!

I never used the #e5e5e5 for terminal windows b/c I wanted to distinguish them visually from #Emacs easily.

Solarized - Wikipedia

Show threadTom Rini
@bkuhn Might be worth heading over to https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/ and playing around with some of the options. Having gotten older as well over the years I've found using these on most things has lead to better readability in general.
Solarized

Precision colors for machines and people

Ethan Schoonover
Dec 12 at 2:32pmWeb