Recommendations wanted for my current effort

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  britgirl · Member · Sep 4, 2006 at 3:01 am

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  Here’s my contribution, for what it’s worth. It’s very dark. I know some are wedded to it, but I don’t understand why people feel that white/pale text on a dark or black background is either user friendly or easy to read.It’s all very well creating a cool looking site and you might feel proud from a design perspective, but if you really want people to be comfortable reading your page, you need to try and incorporate your user’s needs as well. (unless you only intend them to look at photos). And if it’s hard to read what’s the point in bothering? Most won’t.

  You may find it too awful to contemplate, but you can’t beat black text on a white background.

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  salohcin · Member · Sep 4, 2006 at 9:25 pm

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  @britgirl

  Thanks for the feedback. Your comments got me thinking about colour combinations so I researched it a little. Personally, I find light on dark backgrounds easier on the eye. But rather than relying on my own experience, I point to a research paper on web page colour combinations that may be of interest to anyone who dabbles in web design.

  The paper makes some key conclusions but the author points out that the experiments conducted were controlled and therefore not conclusive.