How to install
- Install Stylish plus Kallout for Firefox (or from here for just Stylish or for other Mozilla apps). If you have Stylish already, make sure you have JavaScript enabled.
- You need Firefox with Stylish to use this style. Get Firefox, then install Stylish plus Kallout (or just Stylish), then come back here to install this style.
- for Greasemonkey and Opera users.
Light text on black background was much nicer for my poor cataracted eyes. Now I have a new lens implanted I like black on white again, so this style probably won't be updated anymore.
Thanks to KuRmA for the stars and the improvement! I have incorporated it in the style.
Now uses system colors for input boxes & buttons, too.
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Reviews
Niraj said on May 09 2009
nice style but I found some problems with it. some texts and textarea becomes unreadble with this style. it also blocks the background images as well as the gesture trails. i have improved and expanded this style ... you may want to give this style a try --- Black background, light text:PitchDark companion-I
myf said on Sep 24 2007
Nice. If you like it, you may give a try to the myfavolours - global custom color scheme
Moggy said on Feb 23 2007
Whoa, I've been avoiding light text on a dark background because I assumed it would be harder on my eyes -- but it's completely the opposite, I can see a LOT better with this, thank you! (Even better with the various color tweaks in the comments!)
yournightmare said on Nov 15 2006
How do I exclude a specific site or sites? I really like the way it looks, I just want to exclude a couple of sites! Good job!
jwwolf said on Oct 08 2006
been looking for something like this for a long time
all the other ones i found didnt work to well or the colors where to brighti changed it to this setup with orangeshift installed
* { color: darkorange !important; background: none !important; background-color: black !important }
a:link { color: grey !important }
a:visited { color: DarkGreen !important }
a:hover { color: DarkGoldenrod !important }
a:active { color: Darkorange !important }
micromegas said on Sep 04 2006
Had a moment of nostalgia, the monochrome days, and stumbled upon your style. Works great for most of my regular sites and my eyes really give me much less trouble. I changed the colors to Darkorange and DarkGoldenrod to suit the OrangeShift theme, now I fell like sitting in front of my old IBM-AT. Which is nice as far as I'm concerned. Some folks commented that's giving them kinda eye-cancer though, but what do they know? ;) Just felt like letting you know. Thanks.
KuRmA said on Aug 06 2006
My sensitive eyes needed this style badly - therefore I am giving it 5 stars. For those who don't want the style applied to all the fields in the browser - those who have light themes like me - surround the code with this:
/*namespace here*/
@-moz-document url-prefix(http://), url-prefix(ftp://), url-prefix(file://), url-prefix(https://) {/*everything else here*/
}
Thanks to np for the advice.