ATS 2010 - Part Three - Dark Meat or Light Meat?

Originally posted by alien
Dark. Burnt to a crisp. Covered in HP sauce...

WERD



yes please burnt to a crsip

Dark. Please dark. The white is very unpleasant to look at.

The dark theme is great, it sort of matches the theme of the site, having said that when i compare the two images, the two greys do seem to much together as opposed to the darker text on a lighter background, which seems much clearer, now that could just be my eyesight, I am getting old now apparently, LOL. At the end of the day, i am happy to go along with the most popular choice of the ATS staff. as long as i can still read it.

Dark meat. With the background singers doing that Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of Earle, Duke, Duke, Duke of Earle, Duke, Duke, Duke of Earle bit in the background.

...dark meat or light meat?...

...meat is meat - its the size and firmness that matters...

...i prefer light words on a simple dark background but i wouldnt freak out and stop reading here if you went to dark words on a light background because i can always adjust the brightness of my screen... however, if you go with hot pink or neon green words on a psychedelic background, i'm out of here, lol... dont know what options are available to the administrators but i've been on other boards where the user had multiple options on how they wanted their screen to look (different backgrounds, font color, etc)...

Dark meat, please....I'll take a thigh....hehehe...

I vote for the dark side...give in to your hate and you will too.

Line 2.

I like the dark background, and lite text.

light its better

man, the best thing about a website is that it needs to be light and you need to be able to read and find everything quickly ...

so, I think light meat is the more light design, more easy to read ... I dont know why people like this black smoke thing ... very dark

and another thing, if the website is more white, more people will be interested since this black design kind of scares people ...

the design avaliable right now, its horrible ... it really is painful to navigate thought the website ....

I vote Dark

Light background, especially with the serif typeface.

Dark is much easier to read and see. whichever way you guys go, a 2nd option would be a good plan.

reply to post by SkepticOverlord

Visual Ergonomics in the Office

SCREEN COLORS

* Screen colors: dark letters on a light background. With the monitor off, look at your reflection in the screen. Now turn the monitor on and select a Windows-type background, (black letters on a white background). Notice that you cannot see your reflection as well. Contrast is simply the difference in brightness between two images. With a white background, we reduce the difference in contrast between the screen and what is reflected off of it.

Negative screen contrast (black letters/white background) can reduce reflected images, as we saw with the demonstration. A white background also reduces the luminance (brightness) difference between the screen and the surrounding background of a normally lighted office. That makes it easier on your eyes. Most early monitor screens had a black background with white, green or amber characters. Although white backgrounds were possible, the low quality of the monitors meant that the screen would flicker noticeably. Although newer technology has reduced the necessity, there are still many software programs with dark backgrounds.

That being shown, I still like the dark version, all my personal displays are set this way at work and home. It doesn't bother my eyes this way, seems dark text on a light background would be more irritating.

[edit on 2/12/2010 by UberL33t]

reply to post by AlienCarnage


Well, I can't really debate it since I am only going off studies and common knowledge/wisdom. I can only take the study at it's word that black text on white background is the best in terms of being easy to read and so forth.

I do in places use dark background and light text, but this is generally for things like headers, menus and things of that nature. Most of those items end up with dark background and light text for contrast/separation on the design. But the real content/meat of the pages are always white background/black text.

Most of the sites I see on the web that use dark backgrounds are bad sites. Just a trend I notice is all.

Looks like most people like the dark background here. Personally, I think the site could use some color. I think a white/black/grey/1 color design would like nice. Maybe a red color would be fitting, but any color matches and goes with the previous 3.



[edit on 2/12/2010 by badmedia]

Dark meat please. It's easier on my eyes.

Originally posted by masqua
As one who started out disliking the 'Dark Side', I now prefer it and never use the 'Light Side' any longer.

I vote dark.

Me too. I remember really arguing strongly against dark. Now I can't imagine it otherwise.

Dark meat please.

reply to post by SkepticOverlord

which would it be?

Dark Meat

The dark background is much easier on the eyes.

Originally posted by Now_Then
Dark like my soul.

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I vote dark.

Vote dark

Gives it a conspiracy look for sure!

Why not hire better graphic artists? Burn? If I had to choose between the two awful themes, I'd reluctantly take the darker theme because it makes my eyes bleed slightly less.



[edit on 12-2-2010 by oconnection]