Green on Yellow is the Best
That’s right and classy black on white is way behind according to readability study performed by Alyson L. Hill from Department of Psychology of Stephen F. Austin [State University]. You can actually get this conclusion by simply looking at paper’s webpage — it uses exactly the colors combination, which it found to be the most favorable. Nice touch indeed.
While the study itself is quite dated (1997) I don’t suppose people has changed a lot since then so most if not all of results must still be valid. Here are some interesting ones:
- Green on yellow is the best color scheme in the most conditions except for italicized Arial, for which it’s the worst
- Times New Roman on average is much better than Arial
- The combination, which gives the fastest response time is (surprise) italicized green Times New Roman on yellow background