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On 19/04/18 16:28, John Blinka wrote: |
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> My sympathies to the OP. I fought against dark terminal backgrounds |
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> for years (paper is white and ink is black, right?), tweaked all the |
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> colors through every mechanism I knew of, and never did arrive at a |
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> satisfactory result. |
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Paper is reflective, and ink absorbs light - the opposite of a screen, |
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where the background is dark and the text emits light. |
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You do know green is a primary colour, right? |
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I'm not saying you're wrong to want a light background and dark text, |
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but there are good reasons for why a screen defaults to the opposite of |
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paper. (And defaults don't work for everybody :-) |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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(The three *subtractive* primaries are the well-known red, yellow and |
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blue. The three *additive* primaries are red, *green* and blue. Probably |
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(one of) the reasons why old terminals were "green screen".) |
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