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Sander opened up Visual Studio.
And the solution was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of Visual Studio. And the Spirit of Sander moved upon the face of the monitor.
And Sander said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And Sander saw the light, and it was good; and Sander divided the light from the darkness.
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Blue background, light grey text.
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This survey question is asked circa 2018, not 1988!
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Cyan code with Yellow highlights, on a Magenta background. 
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Ah, Pascal, the late eighties...Nice times, so many happy memories 
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Since long before computer screens (we are talking about the age of black-and-white TVs), thorough studies where made, not one study but a lot of them, on the readability of different color combinations. Pick up any good book on typography (as in print, not web design) from, say, the 60s or 70s, and they will state more or less as an established fact that two color combinations are excellent for readability: White on blue, and black on yellow.
The "bluescreen" is a blue screen by design, not by accident.
At least in Europe, the most common color combinations of traffic signs in Europe are black on yellow (generally for direction indicators, drawings of "maps" like roundabouts etc.) and white on blue (generally for information not directly realted to your driving, such as points of interest, camping sites etc.)
Other combinations are better for catching your attention. It is no surprise that danger and prohibition signs both have a red edge. Those are signs genereally without any text, so readability (in the text sense) is not essential.
One color combination that is not at the top of the list, but quite high, is known to those of us who are old enough to have worked with monchrome 24 by 80 character computer terminals, connected to the mainframe (or mini) by 9600 bps RS-232: Green on black. The terminal manufacturers did not choose to use the white phosphor that was widely used in black-and-white TV screens, but deliberately chose a green variant, due to its higher readability. "All" the terminal manufacturers did. I know of at least two major ones who tried to market white-on-black variants, but they were a failure in the marketplace ... until CGA appeared and offered white-on-blue. (I never worked with CGA myself, but when I in 1982 did a project on IBM mainframe computer color terminals (with resolution way above CGA), white-on-blue was the standard text mode. In the DOS days, that was also the standard combination on EGA and VGA in text mode.
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Turbo C used white on blue with some minimal syntax coloring. Turbo Basic was yellow on black.
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Man, I loved the white text on blue background in MS Word versions prior to 2007. And I'm not even that old 
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