Abscissa’s Page

Seriously, am I the only programmer left who uses a light-on-dark color scheme?

It seems like every other program and website I go near has some element that completely chokes on light-on-dark. Commercial, open-source, Windows, *nix, whatever, it happens everywhere. (Except Mac OS. Last I checked (admittedly way back at v10.2), you can’t even set up a custom color scheme on one of those. Unless you count setting the highlight color - whoohoo…)

The rule of thumb I like to follow:

Foreground and background colors: Set both or set neither, but never just one.

In the interest of avoiding potential hypocrisy: If you ever come across something I made that strays from that, feel free to smack me.