"Blazing White"
Blazing white is black text on a bright background found in some software packages, often without the option to set colors (e.g. Skype). Another common problem is, when using spatial anti-aliasing, the software assumes the background color is white.
Unlike paper, which reflects ambient light, both CRT and LCD displays emit light of sufficient brightness to overcome ambient light. As ambient light varies, the relative brightness of the display can vary widely.
Read more about this topic: Light-on-dark Color Scheme
Famous quotes containing the words blazing and/or white:
“The windy springs and the blazing summers, one after another, had enriched and mellowed that flat tableland; all the human effort that had gone into it was coming back in long, sweeping lines of fertility. The changes seemed beautiful and harmonious to me; it was like watching the growth of a great man or of a great idea. I recognized every tree and sandbank and rugged draw. I found that I remembered the conformation of the land as one remembers the modelling of human faces.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
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—Edmund White (b. 1940)