And an interesting follow-up:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/498698/white-light-vs-black-dark-back...

> To demonstrate the difference, click this link and come back to this page when your eyes have recovered. See what a difference it makes?

It makes no difference whatsoever. Both are unreadable.

Saturated black/white is hurtful, whatever the inversion.

One thing that's very cool there is how the larger text smoothly draws you in to reading the rest! I might not have read any of that if it were just a large title followed by small text... Very cool idea - any other examples of this trick?

hhp

Here's one!

any other examples of this trick?

http://images.google.com/images?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=snellen

;-)

Looks like you're not the fastest smartass in town, Riccardo! ;-)

One thing that's very cool there is how the larger text smoothly draws you in to reading the rest! I might not have read any of that if it were just a large title followed by small text.

I seem to remember this was somewhat common in british newspapers (or possibly just the New Musical Express) in the early 1980s.

Looks like you're not the fastest smartass in town, Riccardo!

I just like to check my sources before posting... ;-)

By the way, maybe it's my astigmatism, but I never liked light text on dark background on a screen.