In article , humphrey
writes
On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:18:50 +1100, FMurtz wrote:

Brian Gaff wrote:
No many people are dazzled. One problem is gamma. On a screen its
often easier to read closely matched colours with the same luminance,
but when you try to print that on paper which emits no light of its
own, the contrast has to be squashed down, and here is where the
trouble comes in. many food packages fall into the same trap. Indeed it
poses issues for reading aids like video magnifiers and text
recognition software as well as those with poor sight like cataracts or
macular degeneration.
Brian

They have young designers with giant computer screen with very high
resolution who think they are clever.



Large tracts of International Times were next to illegible because they
printed across graphics

That was in the seventies, long before bright young things, dtp etc
Err, some of the people on here were young things in the seventies.

There was a lot of work done on screen/text colours in the 70s/80s.
Logica produced a word processing machine which was amber/brown (or
similar) which was supposed to be the best combination. One potential
customer asked if we could change it to either green/green or
black/white because that was the agreement with the union who wouldn't
budge despite all the evidence from the bright young things of the day
in Cambridge University.
--
bert