Colors and your eyes

[Halsafar]

Now, I sit in front of a comp alot, and I consider my eyes to be most precious. Without eyes, I must wait until someone invents a nice enough voice recognition system that I could program with...lol

So, I have a friend who set up his windows appearance to have black backgrounds and matrix green writing.

Now, I set that up to, and programming in VC++ with black backgrounds and green text, all the colors show up, it looks awesome....

but I don't need flashy.

So my question is, do staring a certain colors all day compared to other colors hinder or assist eye deteriation???

[mendhak]

Darker colors put less strain on your eyes. But then you have to keep in mind the contrast presented. If you are working on a dark background, the surroundings, if they are bright, will contrast, and put a little strain on your eyes. So a good way to cope with this would be to dim the lights. Keep your surroundings dim, but not dark.

Best place to put your monitor is away from windows instead of in front of it.

And a friend of mine, who's a doctor, pointed out to me that IT geeks generally tend to stare continuously at the monitor like zombies. We rarely blink. It's best to keep blinking, there's nothing we have to lose by blinking.

HTH

[MartinLiss]

Some time ago I remember being told that yellow text on a blue background was the easiest on the eyes.

[MartinLiss]

This is interesting

[mendhak]

Originally posted by MartinLiss
Some time ago I remember being told that yellow text on a blue background was the easiest on the eyes.

Red on blue or blue on red is the worst combination. Our eyes are supposed to be unable to focus in such a case.

[Halsafar]

Hmmm, dark colors, dim the lights...excellent.

That webpage posted above is very interesting.

Heh, I have ADHD, but not in a Tom Green way, more like my mind never stops thinking way, some people are amazed at the ammount of knowledge I can spew on a regular basis without stopping to breath.

Anyway, thanks for all yer knowledge

[Cander]

red on blue sucks. The letters look like they are floating and moving. Bad headache!

[NoteMe]

Originally posted by MartinLiss
Some time ago I remember being told that yellow text on a blue background was the easiest on the eyes.

Thats the swedish colors....there is no way I am going to program in Swedih colors...D:

[NoteMe]

Originally posted by mendhak
Red on blue or blue on red is the worst combination. Our eyes are supposed to be unable to focus in such a case.

Welll our flag is Red Blue and White...it is not a bad combinition...it is the greatest..

[Cander]

YIKES THIS SUCKS

[Andy]

Originally posted by Halsafar
Hmmm, dark colors, dim the lights...excellent.

That webpage posted above is very interesting.

Heh, I have ADHD, but not in a Tom Green way, more like my mind never stops thinking way, some people are amazed at the ammount of knowledge I can spew on a regular basis without stopping to breath.

Anyway, thanks for all yer knowledge

that's interesting cause I have DHDA..I can't stop saying enough stupid stuff without taking a breath.

[MartinLiss]

Originally posted by Cander
YIKES THIS SUCKS

THIS DOES'NT

[mendhak]

Originally posted by Halsafar
... the ammount of knowledge I can spew on a regular basis without stopping to breath.

You sound like the global media!

Minus the Knowledge part, of course.

[Dave Sell]

If you can read this then you are color blind.

[SLH]

[SLH]

If you can't read the above, you are normal.

Stuff like stopping for a few minutes every now and then helps, also things like looking out a window and focusing on things far away, then near, then far again helps.

[CORONA BEER]

Originally posted by MartinLiss
Some time ago I remember being told that yellow text on a blue background was the easiest on the eyes.

Yep i have to agree, I didnt know it was the easiest on you eyes but i have been programming in this for a while, i dont think i'll use anything else. Borland classic theme

[Halsafar]

I'm goona try that nice yellow on blue.
Maybe a bit darker of a blue.

trying to focus on that red on blue up above was hard, my eyes just got pissed off at me. it hurt.

I'm glad I sparked a good topic, I learned lots.
Don't have much to add...so...Thank you all