Web page readability: Green text on yellow works the best(hubel.sfasu.edu)
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Web page readability: Green text on yellow works the best
http://hubel.sfasu.edu/research/AHNCUR.html
3 comments
Unfortunately, usability is as much about practical use as anything else and so if green text on yellow increases readability but bores most users to leave the site it's bad usability:)
-Zaid
-Zaid
It just looks horrible. Usability is not plan readability. There's an esthetic component to it as well.
1) although the study excluded color-blind people from participating (???), they mislead people into thinking it's a great color scheme for the general population
2) they said the color combinations differ for common fonts besides Arial, so it's not a good rule of thumb
3) computer LCD monitors could very well make green text on a yellow background very hard to read even for people with normal vision
4) The effects of reading very long pieces of text were not tested
Reasons #1 or #3 alone means I would not use that color combination without further testing with color-blind people as well as on older LCD screens. (Note, the study is down at the moment so I can't double-check what I said.)