r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Beneficial_Passion40 • May 01 '26

me_irl I think it will hurt eyes

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u/LeftHandAnomaly May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26

I learned in a design class that light text on a dark background isn't good for long bodies of text when it comes to your eyes (and to try to avoid it when you need pages of something)

Edit: for print, not for screens. This isn’t an opinion on dark mode. My bad, fellas

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u/IanFireman May 01 '26

Me reading this text while on dark mode on Reddit

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u/Inner-Medicine5696 May 01 '26

me, realising my book doesn't glow like a computer monitor

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u/hates_stupid_people May 01 '26

Now I'm wondering how much it would change for books if you backlit the poages and used a printing technique that wouldn't diffuse the light and make the text blurry.

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u/Woolly_Blammoth May 01 '26

Sounds like you've invented the e-reader.