Re: Best way to use a monitor without hurting my eyes?

An old thread but I will add my recommendations for anyone who wants to know of things that can be helpful.

Firstly, f.lux which adjusts the monitor brightness depending upon time. It reduces the brightness at night so that less light affects the eyes which can affect sleep. It can also be used manually to lower the brightness or alter the display colour to some presets which significantly reduce blue light.

Also the next idea will be useful if you are web browsing. It requires the use of a Firefox compatible browser. I find an extension called Dark Background and Light Text, excellent at removing all the horrible white backgrounds which so many websites insist on using. This is one of the better ones that I have found. There are similar but less effective extensions for other browsers. For example Curezone normally shows with a white background and a yellow text edit box. Using DB< extension my curezone screen shows as white text on a black background which is much easier on the eyes.

For any sites that do not work correctly different options can be selected and site options are retained so that the selected style is restored when the site is re-visited.

Selecting none white window backgrounds maybe a custom desktop style would also be helpful. In windows 7 I use a modified shellstyle.dll which allows selecting different window background colours. It is called universal shellstyle by satukoro which I got from deviantart.

BTW it is blue light which is most damaging and can disrupt sleep patterns. Therefore anything which reduces blue light either with low blue light mode on monitors or alterations to display colours can reduce that and prevent fatigue to the eyes. White is the biggest offender because it consists of Reg, Green and Blue light at full brightness, it is totally unnecessary IMO and is nothing like paper as paper only reflects light whereas a monitor puts out light at higher brightnesses. Custom browser stylesheets can change this ridiculous obsession by many websites. Tweet