Two Fiction Reading Queries

[riverfox]

1. Which do you prefer when reading fiction from a website?

• Black font on white background?


• White on black?


• Dark Grey on white?


• blue on white?


• black on light grey?


• dark color on light color other than white?


• Another preferred color combo?

2. When it comes to reading offline, do you use the webpage, or would you like to have a .pdf or .docx download option?

Comments

[ivorygates]

Hm. I tend to not read offline, but were I to do so, I'd prefer an "on-purpose" (ie, the .pdf or .docx -- which i would instantly convert to .doc because I do not ever in the entire future history of fankind ever intend to upgrade Word 2003 -- option) download rather than having to wrestle with the alternative methods of textwrestling.

Designers should be locked into a room with the Encyclopedia Britannica formatted in their preferred colors/fonts/sizes and not let out until they've read it. My two favorites so far have been...

1. Red on chrome yellow. JIMINY CHRISTMAS, PEOPLE!

2. Light pink on.... SLIGHTLY DARKER PINK! Hello, I am down with Hello Kitty TOO! But I would also like to know whether there is text on the page, or if I am just hallucinating, you know???

Opinions. I haz them.

[riverfox]

LOL Um, yeah. Word 2003+. The dreaded ribbon conversions. It took me *ages* to learn that frickin' thing. I nearly didn't bother, but I'm a silly fan of "updates please!", but more, I'm a bigger fan of "the pretteh", since I learn visually and for some reason, I have to have a pretty GUI to do any bloody thing. *eyeroll*

Light pink on dark pink? Unreadable. Wouldn't even try. It'd be more useful to do those color blindness tests. ;)