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My first monitor was bought almost 30 years ago for my Timex ZX Spectrum 2048 
It was a green phosphor crt. A rounded black case monitor with a red power button on top. I don't know its brand or anything but was quite usual those days.
Everything was a shade of green... I loved it!
Eh... actually I didn't. Whenever I could I sneaked to the B/W TV and later on (and better yet) on the color TV.
I've worked on many systems, and the console based usually have black or blue backgrounds and at the time I didn't have any problems with them but the truth is that C# syntax richness can't compare with any of those.
Passed all these years I tried some themes for VS with black backgrounds but it messes wit my head. I take way much time to read things and it messes with my focus doing things.
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My favorite font is Georgia.
Try it, you'll immediatly see the benefits...
I'll let you discover without posting the "spoiler"... :P
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my fav are "andale mono" and "verdana"
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I've tended to shift more towards the dark background of late. I tend to find staring at a bright screen hurts my eyes after a while.
Though it would actually be better just to get away from the computer for a while
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White background dark text wil be nice to see
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Pure white looks wrong - it's too harsh, and tends to differ depending on the viewing angle anyway.
If you start with a slightly off-white colour, then it doesn't look so odd when it isn't true white!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Ditto.
I use R:225 G:219 B:192 which might be a little too far off-white for your taste.
It's quite surprising how much that colour varies on different monitors.
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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It is a little dark for my taste, yes!
The first thing I have to do when I get a new monitor or printer is start playing with the colour temperature until I have the same colours on both - takes the best part of a day sometimes...
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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My optometrist recommends black text over a light yellow background, such as 255/255/192. He claims that scientifically if offers the greatest contrast and is easiest on the eyes.
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I tried that, or pretty close to it, when I first started but I still had problems. Over the years I've fiddled with it till I ended up where I am now about 18-24 months ago.
This works for me but in general your optometrist's advice is excellent.
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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I'm working with a sort of tan background... MUCH easier to read than black-on-white, but not jarring like a white-on-black setup:
http://studiostyl.es/schemes/humane-studio[^]
(I didn't create that - I've just been using it for a couple years)
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White background with dark text is always a Relaxed vision.
According to human eye vision theory,
"Color vision is the capacity of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths (or frequencies) of the light they reflect, emit, or transmit."
Human eye is very sensitive to Red, Green, Blue color so these color should be used as text not as background.
Take an example of codeProject, same thing concept applies here.
Happy Vision. 
Rating always..... WELCOME
The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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I agree; white background with dark text is easiest on the eyes for long coding stretches, and I definitely prefer that combination over others.
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Real men type white on white! Writing memo's by hand also takes less time that way.
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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Do you mean that you like a greyed text, as is a title of your post?
Greetings - Jacek
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I'm an old timer, from back when editors were yellow on black, and it has stuck with me.
My friends and colleagues complain about this, at which I say it gives a sense of depth to what you do and not some abstract piece of whiteboard drawing!
Maybe you are too old when you remember green CRT displays! 
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.
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Oh I remember them!
And what came before them, as well...
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Ah! the days of debugging punch cards with scissors... 
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.
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Scissors was for paper tape - I used a hole punch for cards! 
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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My memory is failing me! 
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.
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You had memory!? I started programming by toggling SPST switches.
/ravi
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You young folk!
I remember when Moses used to come round and have us remove the bugs on his tablets...
We used to tell him not to play in the bushes so he wouldn't get any, but he wouldn't listen, so we had to part ways...
Now those were real tablets!
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.
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I used to write code in Gothic with illuminated capitals
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