Windows 10: Light or Dark Backgrounds and Fonts - What Works Best for You

Eye problems anyone?

For most of my life, I've had problems reading my computer screen because of the brightness and light gray font presented. Finally, Microsoft and other companies have listened and we're beginning to have choices!

And, that's what this discussion is about! What is your solution? Or, like me, are you looking for multiple solutions?

:)

 

change font size on messages and contacts

is there a way of changing the font size or background on the Nokia 800?
the best way for legibility is to change the background to light not dark, and use dark theme colours
Any suggestions?

 

Win10 Start Menu Font Color matching Background?

Hello,

I've tried to play with all the Start Menu settings and for some reason Windows keeps changing the font color to match the background. A font should not match the background, it should contrast it. No matter how I set background, light or dark, the font
always corresponds with the same; dark backgrounds with nearly equally dark fonts. I cannot read the start menu and I cannot find anyone else with this problem.

 

Dark characters on a light background are superior to light characters on a dark background - Monitor issue

Original Title: Blinding white!

OK, I'm guessing that everyone that works at Microsoft doesn't have any kind of modern monitor or they spend absolutely no time in front of a LED monitor. Was any research done to see if white is the best idea for all of the UI and no I don't mean the borders!
who cares about the borders? I mean the content in the windows. Absolutely blinding. Even with the brightness/contrast down.

so here's the research

There has been a lot of research on this topic since the 1980s and a lot of it still holds true today. One study from the 1980s states this:

The reason why this matters is because of focus. As
this article on UXMovement states, "white stimulates all three types of color sensitive visual receptors in the human eye in nearly equal amounts." It causes the eye to focus by tightening the iris. Since the eye is focused, dark letter forms on light backgrounds
are easier to read. When using a dark background with strong light letter forms, the iris opens to allow more light in, but that causes letter forms to blur. Why?

Now there seem to be varying factors into contrast and legibility. Room ambient lighting. Brightness of the monitor. Also you can mitigate the straining effects of white (#FFF) on black (#000) by simply lessening the contrast like using a light gray (#EEE,
#DDD, #CCC) on a dark background (#111, #222).

So even if you did make the default theme for 50% of the population, what about the other 50%? is my money not worth making a theme that doesn't blind me? worse, trying to use the High contrast themes are awful. Basic colors that can only contrast to cause
more eye strain? Is this ever going to be fixed or are you going to force the remaining users to go to mac? Also, I will ignore anyone who not an MS employee on this answer. I payed for this. I want support. (No offense to the community)