Re: Babbage and Dark Mode

Ian:

Babbage explored (in the paper & ink era!) many of the
issues raised in the Dark Mode thread. There is a book of
mathematical tables in the Science Museum in London, which
he had printed with varying type colours on varying paper
colours. His objective was to see what combination was
most reliably readable. I don't remember his conclusion,
and unfortunately I haven't been able to find an image
online.

At least we know what to look for:

   Specimen of logarithmic tables
   printed with different coloured inks
   on variously coloured papers

recently (1988) published in issue 3, volume 10,
of /Annals of the History of Computing/.

See also:

   Babbage's Guidelines for the Design of Mathematical Notations:
   <https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dirk/dutzSchlimm2021-AM-babbage_guidelines.pdf>

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