I recently switched to light backgrounds everywhere and an extreme redshift/sct setup (2000°K on the low end). Given that I have a terrible old screen on my laptop, this is the optimal solution for situations when I have to use a strongly dimmed backlight. And another, quite unexpected, effect is that even at night, I prefer a white screen with a strong redshift and slightly dimmed backlight to any other option. This might be connected to the fact that I find most dark color schemes to be less versatile and mostly way too jarring when it comes to contrast.
This is what I do myself; agreed on all points. There have been studies composed on the subject over text and background color - here is one, for example.
There are three different processing modes: simple CSS, stylesheet processor, and invert. Every now and then I need to switch modes to correctly process a webpage. It’s very rare that none of them work.
You can also choose your own palette, if you want to do a color scheme like solarized dark.
This is something I battle with all the time.. I go from outside to nighttime-inside all the time.. typically inverting the XTerm stuff with the middle click menu has been sufficient -but I really want something that works across all the window types!
hmm, just tried it and it inverted the already dark Ars Technica into a bright color scheme. so I could switch Ars back, or disable the extension, etc., but it feels kind of silly. But I’ll consider it some more.
zathura does that!
Two other PDF readers I know of that support this are MuPDF (press
i) and Evince (press^I). I use this feature quite frequently.oh, sweet, never considered it before.
Thanks for pointing out zathura, I’ve had a hard time finding a pdf viewer that I like and this one so far is quite pleasant!
I recently switched to light backgrounds everywhere and an extreme redshift/sct setup (2000°K on the low end). Given that I have a terrible old screen on my laptop, this is the optimal solution for situations when I have to use a strongly dimmed backlight. And another, quite unexpected, effect is that even at night, I prefer a white screen with a strong redshift and slightly dimmed backlight to any other option. This might be connected to the fact that I find most dark color schemes to be less versatile and mostly way too jarring when it comes to contrast.
This is what I do myself; agreed on all points. There have been studies composed on the subject over text and background color - here is one, for example.
You might also try “Redscreen - Night Vision Filter for Linux”, which is a tiny script I wrote around xcalib a few years ago.
…and good on ya, Ted, for being stubborn and running a self signed cert. I ran my sites with one too for many years until LetsEncrypt came along.
Website appears to use self-signed cert?
Yep, and there are two posts about that:
https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/moving-to-https
https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/live-off-the-chain
Those links are, of course, not very helpful. =)
The discussion on lobste.rs has some discussion of it that may provide clarity or edification.
Awesome, thank you both for those links.
This is an area I’ve been working in for quite some time, so it really excites me when I see people experimenting like this. Awesomeness! :D
Some months ago I’ve also wondered about the same topic and compiled it here: https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2017/06/04/why-green-on-black.html
The website is broken.
https://lobste.rs/s/qeqqge/moving_https
Takes a while to get used to but this has helped me several times: https://github.com/adrieng/xrandr-nightmode I’m not running it every night though.
See, it’s stuff like this that makes me feel better about making a poor imitation of jwz’s site for myself.
The choice of sans-serif and non-blue seems to be working. :)
On Firefox I am quite happy with Dark Background and Light Text. Works on FF for Android, too!
There are three different processing modes: simple CSS, stylesheet processor, and invert. Every now and then I need to switch modes to correctly process a webpage. It’s very rare that none of them work.
You can also choose your own palette, if you want to do a color scheme like solarized dark.
This is something I battle with all the time.. I go from outside to nighttime-inside all the time.. typically inverting the XTerm stuff with the middle click menu has been sufficient -but I really want something that works across all the window types!
I’ve found Dark Reader to be very helpful and rarely broken.
hmm, just tried it and it inverted the already dark Ars Technica into a bright color scheme. so I could switch Ars back, or disable the extension, etc., but it feels kind of silly. But I’ll consider it some more.
If you launch SumatraPDF with the option ‘-invert-colors’ it will invert the colors of any PDF it opens