Am I the only one who’s bothered by the colour scheme of the article? (BTW, are there people who take the Sapir—Whorf hypothesis so seriously as to believe that speakers of languages with separate words for ‘navy blue’ and ‘sky blue’ would find it easier?)
I don’t believe it, but it sounds like it should be testable, and if it hasn’t been tested I’d be somewhat interested in doing so. I believe there are standard methods of comparing legibility or readability of two versions of a text (although, IIRC, they tend to show no statistically significant difference between perfect typesetting and text that would make a typographer scream).
You’re probably not the only one bothered by the colour scheme, though; historically, every colour scheme I’ve used on the various iterations of my website has bothered many people. The previous one was bright green on black :S
Am I the only one who’s bothered by the colour scheme of the article? (BTW, are there people who take the Sapir—Whorf hypothesis so seriously as to believe that speakers of languages with separate words for ‘navy blue’ and ‘sky blue’ would find it easier?)
I don’t believe it, but it sounds like it should be testable, and if it hasn’t been tested I’d be somewhat interested in doing so. I believe there are standard methods of comparing legibility or readability of two versions of a text (although, IIRC, they tend to show no statistically significant difference between perfect typesetting and text that would make a typographer scream).
You’re probably not the only one bothered by the colour scheme, though; historically, every colour scheme I’ve used on the various iterations of my website has bothered many people. The previous one was bright green on black :S
(In case it wasn’t clear, I wasn’t serious about the speakers-of-languages-with-several-words-for-blue thing.)