Black on white or white on black?

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Good day dear!
Increasingly, the question is what is good for the eyes?
From constant work at a PC, my eyesight began to sink and I already plan to buy glasses for a computer, but the question is: how to choose the color scheme of your development environment, as you used to, or are there any recommendations?
For example, a light theme with a white font, or a dark theme with a light one.

Answer 1

It doesn't matter, just look past the monitor more often. Preferably out the window and away.

Answer 2

Try this . You can also increase the fonts at least in the browser. I set myself 120% and I became much more comfortable.

Answer 3

If you're programming "not on the web" it may not matter, but if you constantly switch from the IDE to pages that are almost always light, then your eyes will get tired faster.

Answer 4

I use f.lux so that in the same browser the white color of the eye does not hurt.
Every 15 minutes I take a break for 10 seconds (I shift my gaze, stretch my fingers), every 40 minutes I take a break for 2 minutes, I get up and warm up. Firstly, rest for the eyes, and secondly, the blood in the pelvis does not stagnate, for men this is important. Helps me with this Workrave , I recommend it.
Well, now solarized will join this set, which was recommended by degorov , for which we thank him.
But all the same, vision will fall, not so quickly, but nonetheless. I don't know what to do myself.

Answer 5

I recommend using a theme with a white background during the day, and a dark one at night.

Answer 6

Black on white is easier to read due to the greater illumination of the field of view. White on black is better for color perception, especially syntax highlighting. Both schemes are good, the main thing is not to mix both styles, the eyes will quickly get tired of the changes in illumination.

Answer 7

Probably not the topic, but be sure to work with the lamp on, it's better to have 2 of them on both sides of the monitor's view so that the illumination is uniform (aka, gene headquarters) =)

Answer 8

Someone, I remember, said that it was no longer a matter of black / white, but of contrast and brightness. Although no matter how much I tried to play with these parameters, I can’t work on a white background. After a long search, I found the perfect environment for me: my ide , my internets .
If I work in the standard version (light background, dark letters), my eyes fall out after 4 hours. And so I can work quietly for 10-12 hours and my eyes do not get tired.
PS In general, for each this garbage is individual. Many will not be able to do this at all.

Answer 9

I recommend working during the day with regular breaks, for example, every hour for 10 minutes to move away from the computer, go outside, smoke, eat, chat with friends, pet the dog, and at night you need to have sex and not work. And on the screen, make the brightness and contrast smaller, otherwise everyone is used to the light-burners of the eyes. Here e-book readers (such as Kindle) do not use highlighting at all and are read perfectly!

Answer 10

I've been on dark themes for over a year now. And all because all the more or less cool programmers with whom I worked then sat on dark topics, and I was weaker than them and sat on light ones, I felt like a noob. Since then, the stereotype has settled in my head and that they say dark themes are for pros, light ones are for noobs :-D

Answer 11

In macOS, it seems that even the default terminal is black on white so that your eyes do not get tired.

Answer 12

I also use Windows FX, which is configured to dim inactive windows - very convenient when several programs are open at the same time. On a large diagonal, you can afford several windows in the foreground and you always know which one you are working with now, and the rest do not distract attention.