Icon Text Color

How do - I've just changed my background in OS4 to black and I cant seem to find where to change the icon text colour from black to white... can someone tell me where it is please?

Apologies for the mega dumb question ;)

@badgerme

It is in Prefs/Font ("Workbench icon font"). You can also select the background/border/shadow colour for the text there depending on what "Mode" you have selected.

@badgerme
If you are using a TFT monitor black is the worst colour to use as it reduces pixel life

clint

@clint

what?!? why is that???? :-O

@Amigo1

Just some info I read about black wearing out the pixels
quicker than any other colour. White being the best.

clint

@clint

okey, thanx.
But I doubt setting the background dark and the icon text to white will help preserving the LCD durability..

@clint

Where on earth did you read that?

@clint

I think I'd rather have dead pixels that are black than ones that are white.

@tonyw&clint

Seems reasonable though since, from what I would guess, you apply current to make individual elements non transparent. Having each element fully transparent would then mean that you don't apply any current at all.

This is my guess on how an LCD monitor works:

Each pixel consists of three crystal cells. Each cell sits in front of or above a layer that only allows light in a certain color to pass (one red, one green and one blue).

Behind the screen (and thus the pixels) is a light source that emits white light. if you remove the pixel matrix on an LCD you'll see a shining white surface.

Each element can be controlled so that is become more or less transparent. In 256 steps on a 24Bit capable screen.

Applying no current makes it fully transparent.

Applying max current makes it non transparent.

And anything in between makes it semi transparent.

Applying current wears down an individual element faster than not applying any current to it.

Thus one may conclude that having the screen powered up and using dark pixels wears it down faster than if you used bright pixels.

Hi @orgin

...using dark pixels wears it down faster than if you used bright pixels.
Boing - "wears it down"? I'm not following this thread very well. The electronic world is based on flow of electrons. Can you elaborate more? Is this LCD phenomenon rather than a CRT display?

@Snuffy

in a CRT, black "means" beams switched OFF (the opposite of a LCD/TFT)