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Originally Posted by algernon
Alright, I am going to try this.
The White on Black would be nuts,I almost had a seizure.
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White on Black is crazy, and not usable full time.
I’m on day two now of full time grayscale. I’m appreciating my wallpapers all over again - I mostly have aviation photography, and the aircraft look fantastic in black and white. I tried playing X-Plane (flight sim) and it looks cool in grayscale too, more realistic in fact. I attribute this to the fact that no matter how good a flight sim’s graphics are, the ground, sky and cloud textures never have quite the right colours. In grayscale, you don’t have that cognitive dissonance when playing the game.
I did a few tests using grayscale and colour gradient test patterns at various websites, and the grayscale on the Mac is quite good - no obvious dithering or banding to worry about. Everything looks nice and sharp, and I notice details in a lot of graphics that I otherwise don’t, because the eye is drawn to shape, texture and lines, rather than splotches of colour. It’s also apparent, after approx. 24 hours now, just how technicolor the web is. My wife’s machine has colours screaming out of every browser window, blue on facebook, red on CNN, blue text, black text, red text, green text. The dock is a huge jumble of un-cordinated colours.
Almost none of this miasma of RGB conveys any useful information. That’s the most shocking thing about it.
Meanwhile, my grayscale machine is cool, uniform, and CRISP. Websites look more like newspapers or high grade textbooks, with the emphasis on text. It’s becoming apparent how little colour adds to most websites, and how poorly colour is used overall. Having two or three different colours of text on the same page is brutal for pure efficiency of reading and concentrating on content.
Who knows, at the end of this week long experiment, maybe I’ll remain in my grayscale world. The real test will be doing work rather than leisure stuff on Tuesday.