Web page readability: Green text on yellow works the best

http://hubel.sfasu.edu/research/AHNCUR.html

by daliso • 19 years ago

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zaidf• 19 years ago

Unfortunately, usability is as much about practical use as anything else and so if green text on yellow increases readability but bores most users to leave the site it's bad usability:)

-Zaid

vlad• 19 years ago

I wanted to try to submit some links to this site, but decided to pass on this one because of FOUR major problems with their study:

1) although the study excluded color-blind people from participating (???), they mislead people into thinking it's a great color scheme for the general population

2) they said the color combinations differ for common fonts besides Arial, so it's not a good rule of thumb

3) computer LCD monitors could very well make green text on a yellow background very hard to read even for people with normal vision

4) The effects of reading very long pieces of text were not tested

Reasons #1 or #3 alone means I would not use that color combination without further testing with color-blind people as well as on older LCD screens. (Note, the study is down at the moment so I can't double-check what I said.)

nickb• 19 years ago

It just looks horrible. Usability is not plan readability. There's an esthetic component to it as well.

Web page readability: Green text on yellow works the best

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