Comments on: Green, With Envy

By: Quag7

Quag7 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:10:44 +0000

In addition to the green, most of the textfiles.com “complex” displays in a very readable manner in lynx. You do this full screen in a console and you got yourself some goodness.

Practical? Probably not.

I am a nerd.

By: MC

MC — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:49:50 +0000

Green on black is fine unless you have a stupid antialias engine that makes it unreadable. Freetype/Xft in X.org is such a stupid engine. It works fine with dark on light, but the reverse makes it really hard to read. All the characters are suddenly very blurry.

I have turned on antialias for all GTK apps, so Firefox shows this blog just fine, but for people with antialias on, it would be blurry.

By: jas

jas — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:10:15 +0000

green on black makes total sense for most bbs sites, i dont even think i was influenced by textfiles.com when i did myspace/bbses and other bbs related sites…. BUT, i am always worried about people thinking i am copying textfiles.com so i change most of them to a different color scheme.

green on black is just cool.
my trillian theme is setup that way too.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:35:05 +0000

All of the C++ console applications that I wrote for my company pop up with green text on a black background. As someone else already wrote, it just feels right to me.

My second favorite is the bluish-white on black, which was how text appeared on a TRS-80 monitor, and third is the default whitish-on-blue of the Commodore 64.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:18:39 +0000

I would sooner chew off my own arm than create a website colored like this.

But it is absolutely, 100%, perfectly appropriate and proper for this site.

It’s GREEN because that is the color of the past.

Just please don’t go all uppercase on us. In the same way that SCAdians pass on the dysentery as part of the “authentic medieval experience”, so too should we pass on that.