• drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term

      A named color is just a term for an arbitrary range of light frequencies, and different cultures differentiate between different ranges. Especially when you get into more specific named colors like “indigo” or “chartreuse”. In fact “indigo” made its way into English from Portuguese and “chartreuse” from French.

      I don’t speak Japanese, but these could very well be “Japanese colours”.

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    Those colours are actually pretty solid, anyone got a link? I always struggle to pick softer background colours for my sites, #000 on #fff is an accessibility issue for eye strain reasons.

  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    What’s wrong with #ffffff?

    Somehow when we had only 16 colours to work with we didn’t have the worst of the designer-brain “grey on marginally different grey” eyestrain factories. High-enough contrast for accessinility was essentially guaranteed. And you could go even more restrictive for laptops with early washed out LCDs and only-shades-of-red plasma screens.

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      Full-contrast black-on-white is also a common eye strain and/or migraine trigger.

      • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Would white-on-black cause the same problem or fix it? I’ve been curious about this kinda thing for a while, but never curious enough to research it since it’s never affected me.

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          I’m honestly not sure; I expect it varies from person to person. I certainly find it difficult to look at either way around.

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          I know I read at some point a light gray (which is a shade of white I guess) and a dark gray (which is a shade of black) is ideal for reading for the most people. It shouldn’t be the highest contrast pure white on pure black, but something like that is the ideal.

  • jlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.de
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    In terms of accessibility I would guess this is pretty solid advice. You can probably switch these with #fff without loosing to much contrast with whatever other colours you have.