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Originally Posted by Julie Gerleman
. First of all, as a web designer I never use black as a background color if I can help it. While in real life black is very elegant and is used often to set off the rich colors of a painting, electronically it reads too harshly (yes, I would include even this beloved forum in that assessment).
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There are different schools of thought on that. When i first started designing sites, I used black. After a while, I got severely criticized for it. So, then I never used full black. Thereafter, I got artists complaining that I didn't use black - can't win.
At one time, the background of my site was a very dark muted green. So dark that on my monitor it virtually looked black. Then one day, I saw it on someone else's computer and it was an awful garish green. From that point on, I switched to black for the site since black will always be black on any monitor.
You will notice that most of the sites I design for artists are not black. But, frankly, I've never found light text against black or any dark color hard to read. What I do find hard to read is a long page of text that fully goes the width of the screen - hard to follow more than hard to read.