I recently switched to a custom canvas color for drawing/edit windows in Glyphs — kind of a warm, light gray-beige. Another just curiosity... do you prefer light or dark color modes for your editor and more specifically drawing glyphs?
I've used light mode for so long with a basic white canvas but am finding something pleasant in the switch. Have not spent much time in dark mode where the colors and values are inverted (was a little too jarring to me and hard initially to feel as precise... maybe in time).
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Even drawing Feneon, which I imagine to be used mostly light-on-dark, I had the edit window in black-on-white (though I appreciated Glyphs's reversible preview pane).
Flickering:
These days isn't common to see it, but flickering affects eye fatigue, for the human eye is isn't observable but the strobes of backlight flickering alll the time are a problem, headaches etc...
8 bit color depth panel that are trutfully 6 bit:
Some panels (mostly ips, and tn) only have 6 bit of color depth and they relay in a technique called frc (frame rate control) so to simplify it's like backlight strobing but with the pixels, they flash at extreme speed to simulate the other 2 bits of color depth, most people can only notice with specific colors of patterns being redered on the screen, usually color make you fell a little sick or that the color is changing really fast, patterns usually look like they are moving (if you have pixel orbting turned on it's moving).
and something to try out:
warmer colors can help with eye fatigue but i wonder what an oled panel can do it, ips, tn, and va panels are based on the same technology LCD and between them the best result for deep blacks are achieved with the va panel but truly blacks are only achieved with oled for the simple reason that black in a oled panels isn't just a pixel closed so the backlight can tresspass it it's off.
So i wonder how much better would be to litterally have no light at you face all the time, the problem it's just the price for it.
With white on black content I get a persistent afterimage, which is distracting and annoying. I'm not sure if that's always been the case, or if it's an effect of age.
Off-white or paper color is an interesting idea. I may try that.