Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anton Shepelev Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:13:08 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: <20250221181308.7be4f64b511766b0e3aa96c0@g{oogle}mail.com> References: <87zfig9gkb.fsf@example.com> <868qpz32r5.fsf@example.com> <20250221180721.7e133a78cadf056ca086451c@g{oogle}mail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:13:08 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5a3713302bb2f50f20f934d1e8b1d48c"; logging-data="3616350"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19GFMkPIibH2mUmVZJhOb6E8q38WXo/cBY=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Hdy2BbWoed7oLZSKVMoc///2bsU= X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-mingw32) Bytes: 1774 I wrote: > For this reason, good dark schemes tend to use bluish > colors for the background or comments (for there may be > more than one), and green-yellow collors for the > foreground. I meant green-red colors for the background. And of course the neutral color is usable for background (dark grey), comments (grey), main text (light grey), and keywords (white), but hardly for all the four simultaneously (unless on a greyscale terminal) because of too high a contrast required to keep the gradations easily distinguishable. -- () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments