What is the best color used on console?

folkenfanel · 06-28-2006, 06:27 PM

HI folks

I use Matrix green on a black scree. It rocks! It's just... awesome!

kodon · 06-29-2006, 01:00 AM

the big terminal monochromatic schemes are
green/black and amber/black... i have no idea
if any scientific studies were done to choose
these or if they were the cheapest to implement.

i've spent enough time with each that i prefer
something else...so i use white/black currently.

as for xterms...they're already running in X so there
really isn't any correlation to the original question.

kencaz · 06-29-2006, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by folkenfanel

HI folks

I use Matrix green on a black scree. It rocks! It's just... awesome!

Most certainly Green On Black. Like the old VT100 and AS/400 terms...And don't forget about the MCP...

EOL

liquidtenmilion · 06-29-2006, 01:24 AM

I have to do white/light grey on black. Green is too hard to read, unless the font is very big, or the display is at a very low resolution.

davidsrsb · 06-29-2006, 03:58 AM

Remember that those old green and amber terminals were monochrome.
Your text console is displaying on a colour monitor with RGB pixels so high contrast edges can have some colour artifacts, especially with LCDs.

Red and Blue are out because people often focus badly on them, think how an optician adjusts your prescription.

raska · 06-29-2006, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by davidsrsb

...Red and Blue are out because people often focus badly on them...

And those colours are quite difficult to people with colour blindness or Daltonism

I think that white/black is the best combination for working at the CLI (don't forget to rest your eyes a few minutes every hour)

jstephens84 · 06-29-2006, 10:22 AM

I use Eterm alot and I like the blue and red on black that it uses.