Readability - CD/web site

[Janice Gelb]

Nelson, Julie wrote:
>
> Do you know of any readability studies available on the web that
> reference what background color/font color/font size & type is easiest
> to read on a CD or web site.  Our long term goal is to include a good
> deal of this content on our intranet site, so it would be helpful if the
> CD & web site had a similar layout.  I'm researching this on Google, but
> I thought I'd check here too.  I'm guessing I could find something on
> Jakob Nielsen's site.
> 

Here is what looks like a pretty thorough study:
http://web.umr.edu/~rhall/commentary/color_readability.htm
called "Color Combinations and Readability." It cites
other studies and claims that the effects of colors on
readability are not consistent. It provides a w3c algorithm
for differences in background brightness and text.

I found another study at http://www.aprompt.ca/WebPageColors.html
called "Testing the Readability of Web Page Colors."

My Google search terms were "color readability web site"
and I got quite a few hits.

-- Janice