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- What color text on what color background remains the standard for readability?
- What is the best background color for reading?
- What Colour text is easiest to read?
- What Colours are difficult to read?
What color text on what color background remains the standard for readability?
While white text on a black background provides very high value contrast, it is less readable and causes greater eye fatigue than black text on a white background. All light-colored text on dark backgrounds causes eye fatigue.
What is the best background color for reading?
- Warm background colors such as Peach, Orange or Yel low are beneficial for readability, taking into consider ation both reading performance and mouse tracking measures. Also, cool background colors, in particular Blue Grey, Blue, and Green, decreased the text read ability for both group.
What Colour text is easiest to read?
Their general findings were: 1) Black and white were consistently rated as the most readable; 2) Color combinations that included black were rated more readable than those that did not; and 3) Darker text on lighter backgrounds were rated higher than lighter text on darker backgrounds.
What Colours are difficult to read?
Avoid green and red/pink, as these colours are difficult for those who have colour vision deficiencies (colour blindness). Consider alternatives to white backgrounds for paper, computer and visual aids such as whiteboards. White can appear too dazzling. Use cream or a soft pastel colour.
