Do you prefer light or dark layout? I prefer light one (white, yellow, light green), because it's easier to read through it. On the other hand, dark layouts are "atmospheric".

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I like light layouts as well. Dark layouts are just too... dark. I perfer the backgrounds to be a white, or light silver color (just like this forum ).

Of course dark text is always better too.

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I think if im going for a website that i want to be more professional looking then ill go for a light color, but for my site, then i like more darker colors, just because i think it looks better with gaming and everything else.

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black & dark blue, no question. i use a modified version of blade theme from wincustomise. though for major text areas i changed the color to off-white as a dark scheme was just too hard on the eyes....................

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Light in almost all circumstances. A dark menu bar is often not bad at all, but overall a lighter layout usually looks better, in my opinion.

I never really got the black and red or dark blue layouts.

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I always prefer light, its far easier on the eyes. I especially like the light blue, light green or silver schemes as I find those easiest to read and generally look better than a mish-mash of bright colours randomly picked from the colour palette.

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That's open for debate. Some have said that staring at light backgrounds is like staring into a light source, while dark backgrounds don't bombard your eyes with bright lights. A lot of it is dependant on the color of the text as well; light on light or dark on dark are quite an eye-sore.

I've personally always been a fan of dark styles, although light styles can be very nice if done properly.

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I agree with most everyone else...I prefer a lighter background. But if there's a compelling design reason to go with a dark bg, then that's fine. Without that reason, though, I kind of just assume a light background.

I think it might stem in part from the fact that a great deal of the printed material we see is often on a light or white background, and the web is still largely rooted--for better or worse--in that model.

It seems that sites that break with the "printed page" model, such as sites where images, animations or video surpass the importance of the written word, more often sport a darker design than sites where text is paramount. Just a subjective observation. :-)

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To me it's basically the content on the site and the theme. I like using dark layouts sometimes and sometimes I prefer to use light layouts.

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I like really clean-cut, light layouts. White, light blues, light greens, just light anything, especially because they are really easy to read...

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