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Posted by Andy Dingley on 10/07/05 13:12
windandwaves wrote:
> http://www.historymakers.co.nz
Skinny white text on black - just a bad idea. It's not too bad on an
LCD screen but this colour combination depends more contrast than a CRT
is capable of delivering. Don't do it. If you must do it, then it needs
to be a font with thick strokes (which you can't reliably select over
the web) or a large font size.
Old studies supporting "light on dark" as the ergonomic choice were
based on monochrome phosphors and fixed character generators (or
vectors). They're no longer relevant for today's displays.
If you put the font size up to a point where the strokes are readable,
then the skinny columns become a problem. You really do need a
dynamically sized pair of columns here.
To deal with the top image, then either just centre it and sit black
space either side (that's already what you're doing anyway). Or else
(and rather better) split it into two layers. Make the Maori eye-candy
image much wider and set it as a repeated background just in case (I
have a 3000px wide screen) then float the text and logo over the top,
either as text (best) or as a transparent image.
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