"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:
“Death of the self in a long, tearless night,
All natural shapes blazing unnatural light.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“His thoughts, delivered to me
From the white coverlet and pillow,
I see now, were inheritances—
Delicate riders of the storm.”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)