Total Commander

Do you use a color scheme with dark background (eg black or dark blue back with white fonts)? or white (or light) background with dark font, as the default?

Both

Regards
Holger

I use a gray background with black font, which is a good tip to protect my eyes, I think.

i prefer black background and yellow font. just like it. and it reminds me of the colours of Dortmund))

Traditional Norton Commander style -- always

Dark background with silver default text and for the rest al colored defined by type of extension.

Alternating white and light gray background with bold black text as default.

Green text for files with a comment.
Blue text for compressed files
Medium blue text for files newer than 1 day
Light blue text for files newer than 1 hour
Light red text for encrypted files
Light grey for symbolic links

See: http://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/filecolors2.png

Still alternating light background color(s) with dark foreground color(s).
Screenshots not absolutely up-to-date, but still give the right impression: [1] - [2] - [3]
Details will vary to match the underlying design of the operating system a little bit better.

Karl

Here is my current TC "palette".

It would be great to have the option to set a separate color for the folder trees...

2JohnFredC
[OT]Those pictures are perfect examples of why not to use ClearType anti aliasing - how can you live with looking at that blurry text ? [OT]

I mainly use white background on black text. Black background every once in a while, Saturday night specials.

For personal favor, I choose light background,
but for long time perspective, i think black is better

petermad wrote:2JohnFredC
[OT]Those pictures are perfect examples of why not to use ClearType anti aliasing - how can you live with looking at that blurry text ? [OT]

Hi PeterMad

[OT]
That's a jpg (with compression) to illustrate my TC colors only. Believe me, the fonts look sharp and clear on my 1920x1200 24" IPS monitor at viewing distance.
[/OT]

That's a jpg (with compression) to illustrate my TC colors only. Believe me, the fonts look sharp and clear on my 1920x1200 24"

Thank God

Darkish Green background. Yellow Text. Alternating lines are darker green/black.

There's lots of studies, that for eye-strain et al - dark backgrounds with light text are much easier on the eyes. And green/yellow again tend to be easier on the eyes than black/white or other combinations.

Hardest on the eyes, being Light Backgrounds with Dark Text.