[prev] [thread] [next] [lurker] [Date index for 2005/09/10]
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Patrick Carr wrote: > Side note: I have never seen a book printed on black paper. (There's > a racist joke in there about the Necronomicon, but I won't make it.) While I would agree, I think we can all agree that the lack of this combination in no way implies that this lack is through design. Paper has traditionally been made of materials that are naturally whitish in color, and dyes and inks have traditionally been far easier to create in dark colors than in light but opaque colors. So, like far too many aspects of our lives, it is merely by happenstance rather than by design or superiority that we traditionally have black words on white background. Certainly when looking at monitors it makes more sense set things up to pick out the bright pixels than to try to instead pick out the dark pixels. -- I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. --Albert Einstein --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://config.sage.orgThere's stuff above here
Generated at 17:00 on 10 Sep 2005 by mariachi 0.52