Re: What Is The Point Of Dark Mode?

Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:

Another thing to consider though is that blue light refracts more than
redlight. So if eyesight is becoming poor, it may still be possible to
focus on blue writing without glasses, while red will no longer be
possible.

There's also the factor that continuous exposure to blue visual field
is reported to be more of a mood depressant that other colors.

Single data point:

I do most things other than web browsing in emacs:

   emacs -fn [snip] -fg rgb:f/c/c -bg rgb:5/0/1  -cr SandyBrown

which is (or looks like) white on a dark red background with an orange
cursor.  Arrived at this as most readable and least fatiguing after
experiments with numerous color combinations incl blues, greens,
orange and black background.

I use vividly different colors for xterms/emacsen that must be easily
and noticeably different to prevent bad errors, e.g. su to root or
remote logins to ther hosts.

White background is too bright, too fatiguing.  PDF manuals that force
white or bright background are really annoying.

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Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada