On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 13:50:14 -0700 "Suraj N. Kurapati" <sun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed 08 Jun 2011 09:26:08 PM PDT, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:09:25 +0200 pancake wrote: > > > White background terminals harm my eyes. > > > > > > I cant think on anybody spending lot of time on a white > > > background terminal. Its anti natural. > > > > I've been through a lot of (old) screens and I have to say it > > depends on screen and font. > > I agree. Newer trends, like the Solarized color scheme[1], seem to > favor thick fonts with supplemental anti-aliasing, such as DejaVu > Sans Mono. Using bitmapped and inherently aliased fonts, such as > Tamsyn[2], with such color schemes is not as good[3]. Instead, I > find that they are much easier to read on a dark background[4]. > > [1]: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized > [2]: http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/ > [3]: http://ompldr.org/vOHo2Nw > [4]: http://ompldr.org/vOHo2YQ > > -- > E Pluribus Unix If I may say so on brief acquaintance with it, that's a well-made bitmap font, that is.
