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solasluaith | 3 years ago

Yes, the blue light content is higher as screens use RGB instead of the full spectrum of light, but for this purpose I care about colour perception and as long as the stimulus in the cones is the same (which it should be if your display is properly calibrated, most are actually quite decent at this point straight out of the factory), this does not make a difference.

Limiting the blue part of RGB makes the available colour space so small, that the design goals of this palette will be impossible to achieve.

As far as I know, the most recent science says that blue light levels from displays are actually pretty much negligible in terms of overall health, but don’t quote me on that. For wakefulness, ideally you should probably not be working that late at night anyways and there’s f.lux and night shift for that if you must. These inherently make legibility of any colour worse though, including this palette.

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MrYellowP|3 years ago

> displays are actually pretty much negligible in terms of overall health, but don’t quote me on that.

Yeah, forget that. It's unreasonable to assume "negligible" is in any way or form acceptable when it comes to vision. It fucking isn't.

Here's something fun! You can actually subjectively measure how bad it is. All it takes is or white background, in full screen, full brightness, in a dark room. It creates a burning-like sensation in the eyes. Then stop, wait a few minutes until it fades and repeat the process with the filter on.

You'll actually notice a difference.

solasluaith|3 years ago

You’re aware that turning on a blue filter at the same brightness level will obviously decrease the overall emittance of the display? Most displays are already way too bright for ideal viewing conditions at maximum brightness, let alone in a completely dark room. Of course it will blind you at that setting and of course mostly turning off a third of the sub-pixels will reduce the issue. That’s why one should trust science over anecdotal evidence because a good scientist would control for brightness...