Campaign site; Easy on the eyes?

[javapadawan]

I'm in the process of redoing my campaign site, but I'm having an awful time trying to decide on a new color scheme. I was hoping folks here might be willing to comment on what they find easiest for reading...

 

[Ace]

I'm in the process of redoing my campaign site, but I'm having an awful time trying to decide on a new color scheme. I was hoping folks here might be willing to comment on what they find easiest for reading...

I think the site is pretty good as is. Also I love the magic items I am now in a low magic game and I am going to have my charcter make a couple of these for the part next session. Good show

 

[barsoomcore]

Studies have shown that the easiest reading combination is light text on a dark background. Bright backgrounds strain the eye, as does high contrast.

That said, my site uses dark text on a light background and I think it's okay. I dislike light text on dark because I like pages to more or less resemble print pages. Just me.

More importantly is the banishing of background images and patterns -- those do more harm than any colour scheme ever could. Plain backgrounds for your text, PLEASE.

 

[ergeheilalt]

Web Pages

I like the dark back grounds with light text. Both campaign sites I am running use the same color scheme (black, white, red).

http://www.geocities.com/ergeheilalt

--still under construction--
http://www.geocities.com/ergeheilalt/haven

 

[Mark]

Good question...

 

[Siridar]

Dark text on a light background.

As long as the background isn't so light that it becomes bright it should be okay.

I think background images can be useful if they don't contain too many contrasting elements (ie: starfields, heavily contrasting cloudy stuff with lightning bolts all over the place, really detailed images, etc..) If you use an image just make sure the background image is subdued and doesn't pull too much attention to it. You want people to read the content, not look at a pretty picture. That's what art gallery pages are for.

I use a light background image (parchment) with basically a darker version of it for the text. (Check my sig for the link)
Brown text > beige background.

 

[Draxus the Tainted]

I sorta like the font the same color as the background!

 

[Eosin the Red]

I prefer a light but not white background with dark text. Some sites can pull off the dark bg with light text but a large minority look cheap.

 

[javapadawan]

Thanks for the compliments Ace; though I can't take credit for the magic items myself. A fellow on the DND-L list was just kind enough to let me post them.

Thanks to everyone else who commented and voted. The way it stands right now, it looks like dark text on light background "won", so I think I'll go with that.