Quick poll: which color scheme for blog posts?

Published Thu, Jul 30 2009 22:30

Guys, which one of these do you prefer: the light one or the black one? For working I do really prefer darker schemes, but it seems like they don’t work very well with the JS editor…

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# Michael D. Hall said on Thursday, July 30, 2009 5:16 PM

Normally I prefer dark-backgrounds but this black scheme is too dark. Maybe lighten up the background just a little bit and lower the saturation on text. For some reason big chunky, sans serif fonts seem to look best on dark backgrounds too. Like Consolas, or Deja Vu Sans Mono.

# Brad said on Thursday, July 30, 2009 5:47 PM

The light one for the blog! The dark is a bit hard to read with the maroon.

# Dave Ward said on Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:30 PM

Light.  I can't read the dark themed blocks unless I highlight them.

# Israel Aece said on Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:31 PM

Hi Luis,

I prefer light color.

# Phillip said on Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:13 PM

Well i just answered this in your last post entry but i definitly perfer the light one.

# Mike said on Friday, July 31, 2009 7:28 AM

Light one- it's a lot easier to read in google reader, and better matches the blog design when displaying only a few lines of code.

# dmartini said on Friday, July 31, 2009 7:32 AM

Light.  It is almost impossible to see strings, etc with the dark scheme you use.  Unless you have more granular control over the colors that is.  I prefer dark myself, but I have to be able to read everything without squinting...

# Joe said on Friday, July 31, 2009 10:36 AM

Light one.  The dark ones are almost impossible to read.

# Ram said on Friday, July 31, 2009 1:46 PM

If I had to choose between your light theme and your black theme I would choose the white one for blog posts.

But I love this kind of colors:

ramooon.free.fr/.../unaccent.png

(nb: strings are in red too)

# Steven said on Friday, July 31, 2009 2:38 PM

The light one! And it's the ONLY option for me because red or blue text on a dark background is completely unreadable on my 8 year old computerscreen. I have to select and paste the code snippets before I can read them... but your ramblings are worth the trouble.

# luisabreu said on Friday, July 31, 2009 4:44 PM

Thanks for the feedback guys. I'll keep the light one until someone helps me change the color of strings in JS code...

# v said on Wednesday, August 05, 2009 9:30 AM

Light One

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