"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:
“Have We not made the earth as a cradle
and the mountains as pegs?
And We created you in pairs,
and We appointed your sleep for a rest;
and We appointed night for a garment,
and We appointed day for a livelihood.
And We have built above you seven strong ones,
and We appointed a blazing lamp
and have sent down out of the rain-clouds water cascading
that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants,
and gardens luxuriant.”
—Qur’an, “The Tiding” 78:6-16, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)
“Kind Sir: Lost and of your same kind
I have turned around twice with my eyes sealed
and the wood were white and my night mind
saw such strange happenings, untold and unreal.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)