Often overlooked black is a background color with useful psychological undertones.

What color font on black and white background. Thats why a better choice for displaying paragraph text is black text on a light background with a tint of gray. Use the below to pick colors for background and text font. Black connotes finality and also works well as a transitional color which is why the fade to black transition is powerful as it gives the impression of starting fresh.

White is associated with light goodness innocence purity and virginity. Evaluate button and link luminosity. Optimal legibility requires black text on white background so-called positive text.

The left color picker controls the background. It is considered to be the color of perfection. Take screengrabs in IE Safari Firefox and Chrome.

Its easy to verify. Try something around 777 grey. Its neutrality makes it a good backdrop for financial information.

Black lettering tends to be squeezed into the background making it hard to read. This post has been a long time coming. I take a slightly different approach here.

Every conference I go to there will be at least one and more often ten or twenty presentations that use white text on a black background. Some make the text look thicker than others. Generally the better text looks white-on-black the fatter it looks reversed.