Comments on: Hello, iPad! Goodbye Print On Paper

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 19 May 2010 00:52:20 +0000

Would you be willing to do a post on some of your favorite international gardening magazines?

By: Tina

Tina — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:50:03 +0000

Honestly, I find it rather hard to read also – I highlight almost the entire text to make it easier on my eyes every time I visit. (Check out how much easier it is to see the comment box text when overlaid on your blog page)
As for the ipad thing – paper will never disappear.
It's going to take a long to for gardeners to even try it – the ones with money anyway. With the economy the way it is now, I don't expect many will be able to purchase it, considering gardening is now becoming 'chic' simply to save money they don't have to spend on toys (which is exactly what the ipad is).

By: Matt Mattus

Matt Mattus — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:44:34 +0000

Thanks for you comments, but it is always hard to respond to folks who remain anonymous. Anyway, I'v been thinking of going back to a dark brown or grey backgrouns, and white type would probably work better than cream, but as a color specialist, I prefer white type on black in digital environments, or in film. Pixels emit light, and there is nothing worse than a white web site with black type. That strains my eyes. On paper, I feel that black ink on white paper is best, especially if the typeface is serif, and the leading is adjusted perfectly. That said, this digital font is a bit tough to read on black, but blogger offers few options. I think that if i adjusted the Kerning between characters, that the site would read better. Still working on it.

But lately, I have heard lots of comments from ( mostly older people) who still think that white type on black is hard to read, If that is the case, why do feature films use white type on black> Take a lesson for other digital or projected mediums, such as television, or public signage, red type on white signs is what amateur pizza parlour signs may use but white type knocked out of a solid color is preferred by the big brands. Television or other broadcast signage maximize white digital type on color whereas the amateur commercials seem to use colored type on colored backgrounds or colored RGB type on white, which is far more difficult to read.
I may experiment with grey type on white, but web sites especially those that want to feature photography, which is in a sense, theater, are all about contrast, and images in RGB look best on a no-light background, rather than a full 100% pixels turned on background, and the most soothing to the human eye are those sites with little light being emitted, such as National Geographic, Nike, Nikonians and other photo rich sites.
If I can change my typeface used in text, it would read better, but the last thing I want to do is to add eye strain with a white page, and black text. That, is reserved for ink on paper.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:08:12 +0000

What a shame.

I adore paper.

Nothing comes close to the touch of paper and beautiful images.

Computer screens will never compare even for a Apple fan as myself.

Long live paper!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:33:03 +0000

Your choice of colors makes it hard to read your site. It looks nice but not very friendly on the eyes.