Black text on white background.. really?

2 points by t3hSpork 12y ago ↗ HN

Why is black text on white background so damn popular? it's like trying to read the text on a lit light bulb all day long. STOP IT. Twitter has that now when you look at your followers and probably on other pages.

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t3hSpork 12y ago ↗

I do like this for chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/care-your-eyes/fid...

Unfortunately Skype cannot be changed.

qwerta 12y ago ↗

I run KDE with dark theme, Skype is dark as well. On some inferior desktop environment you could use window inversion. OSX has some hotkey which inverts colors...

sp332 12y ago ↗

Maximizing contrast improves readability. Can't you just turn down your screen brightness if it's too bright?