A couple days ago, Roger Johansson published a complaint about the problems he’d been encountering recently with light text on dark backgrounds. It’s an interesting subject – is there a distinct usability difference between dark text on light versus light text on dark? For Roger, there’s no question – light text causes pain. If it hurts, it’s not going to happen. But how general is this kind of problem? Roger points out an interesting quote from designer Mark Boulton specifying … Continue reading On the readability of inverted color schemes