Black text on a white background, even the faded, yellowish white that books end up being with time, is one of the worse color contrasts for reading, imo.
Hahaha, clearly we must educate you
From my experience with forum formatting and personal trial and error, there are very significant differences to using colors in different viewing modes (according to the list under 'Change Color', the "default" forum colors {not encompassing other useable but not evident colors like
cornflowerblue, the best blue in both forum viewing modes or
chocolate. Better than brown because it really looks brown.}
We've got Core (What seems to be 'Forum default' but an easier to remember name in the Look & Layouts under Modify Profile) format, used in default by all users when viewing all boards not-related to DF, with the opposite being the Darkling format, which people use for its total color swap! (Text is white, background is black; mirrors the DF boards rather than the Core format of the other boards).
I can't provide a straight-up guide on what is better on each viewing mode, given the relativity of vision here (and many other factors like monitor brightness or such), but that's the basic idea: Light-colors don't go well with light backgrounds, dark colors, aren't efficient on a dark background.
Note to self: Don't do these things if net is going silly -.- it'll take many minutes to even preview and post or upload any images. -_-
To relate to this thread:
I totally copied all of the above, with minor edits, from my RtD Library draft which I should really send to NAV.
It's finished.
It's offline.
I'm not sending it.
Should talk with this with my mentor soon.