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Subject:Re: The color of text & on-screen readability From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 8 Nov 1995 21:17:24 -0800
Melissa Hunter-Kilmer said:
> Blue on anything is supposed to be really hard to read in the long
> run, because blue is a great background color; it tends to recede.
> So it's not good for something you want to notice.
Hm. I use kind of a navy on cyan, and I find it very readable.
(Though I'm not color blind.) A royal blue would be hard to read.
