The Azbakeya effect

Wed, 09/02/2005 - 4:27pm — whirlpool

This might be totally useless. So if you find this silly don't react or comment. Just go on, find something else to read.

I can't read pdf's from the computer monitor. The white background is very bright, it hurts my eye. I used to solve this by exporting the pdf to a text file and put it on my PDA. But, my PDA is cheap and old. It can't do Arabic. So if it is an Arabic book, I have to be tortured with a white background.

-papercolor

The first thing that came to my mind was to simulate old books. The old yellow brown color is very comfortable to the eye. And they have a nice warm fuzzy feel.

Here is a list of several old paper colors, that I use.