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Totally the opposite for me. In the dark days of coding on Windows, I used to invert the entire screen's gamma ramp just to have white text on dark background. I found that switching back to black on white caused my eyes to squint due to the excessive brightness.

I've often wondered why computers in general still persist with black text on a white background. I'm convinced in 50 years time there will be legions of people with eye problems that could have been avoided by just inverting colours on active displays.

For this reason I only like ePubs too as you can invert the colours easily when reading on a tablet.



Pardon? I thought that Windows was one of the first systems to deviate from the "green/amber-on-black" standard terminals that ruled those bygone days.




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