Create newsletter. Please, need advice. Thank You

[dorayme]

It's your choice if you prefer to have unreadeable text like dark-red
on black - or dark-grey on black ...

I like black on white. Especially after a heavy night. <g>

 

[dorayme]

dorayme wrote: ....
....

My own site uses less than black on white to minimize the starkness.
But. As attributed to Abe Lincoln, in paraphrase, "It won't please all
of the people all of the time ..."

It is an interesting issue. So many websites use black on white and it
seems so much part of browser style defaults that maybe there is an
argument for proceeding with great care imposing our tastes on the world
outside. Maybe we should leave it to the user to decide along a similar
logic to 100% font size for body text. Let the user decide on what is
white and black in detail by setting his monitor etc... encourage
browser makers to give easier controls for this sort of thing etc.

 

[Lars Eighner]

In our last episode,
<[email protected]>,
the lovely and talented dorayme
broadcast on alt.html:

It is an interesting issue. So many websites use black on white and it
seems so much part of browser style defaults that maybe there is an
argument for proceeding with great care imposing our tastes on the world
outside. Maybe we should leave it to the user to decide along a similar
logic to 100% font size for body text. Let the user decide on what is
white and black in detail by setting his monitor etc... encourage
browser makers to give easier controls for this sort of thing etc.

The main problem is that every GUI font sucks. VGA fonts can put 25
80-character lines on the screen that a perfectly legible whether
light-on-dark or dark-on-light. This is why lynx rules.

 

[Lars Eighner]

In our last episode,
<[email protected]>,
the lovely and talented dorayme
broadcast on alt.html:

It is an interesting issue. So many websites use black on white and it
seems so much part of browser style defaults that maybe there is an
argument for proceeding with great care imposing our tastes on the world
outside. Maybe we should leave it to the user to decide along a similar
logic to 100% font size for body text. Let the user decide on what is
white and black in detail by setting his monitor etc... encourage
browser makers to give easier controls for this sort of thing etc.

The main problem is that every GUI font sucks. VGA fonts can put 25
80-character lines on the screen that are perfectly legible whether
light-on-dark or dark-on-light. This is why lynx rules.

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed dorayme

It is an interesting issue. So many websites use black on white and it
seems so much part of browser style defaults that maybe there is an
argument for proceeding with great care imposing our tastes on the world
outside. Maybe we should leave it to the user to decide along a similar
logic to 100% font size for body text. Let the user decide on what is
white and black in detail by setting his monitor etc... encourage
browser makers to give easier controls for this sort of thing etc.

I have the background color of my windows set at a very pale blue, seems
to be less harsh on my eyes than black on white.

What's fun is to see that pale blue shining through when an author has
neglected to specify the body background color, taking it for granted
that everyone has white.

 

[dorayme]

What's fun is to see that pale blue shining through when an author has
neglected to specify the body background color, taking it for granted
that everyone has white.

Yes, it is informative. I have one browser set similarly (a rich yellow
as it happens) for the purpose of detecting non-settings of background
colours. Not a browser I use for browsing though.