I'm a demon when it comes to issues of color schemes on your desktop or on the Web, so get ready for a mouth full.
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...and can then penalize you for using white text...
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Bull shit!
-- Google looks for exact matches between background and text tags to detect hidden text. The effort fails if one or the other is missing from the document. If you stipulate white text but have no stipulation for what the background color should be, you'll be able to get away with hidden text -- and I don't condone this -- I, along with Google, detest cheaters and spammers.
From DrTandem1
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...white text on a black background is not comfortable for the eyes. It is much easier for the eye to have black text on a white background.
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Neither one is correct!
WHITE ON BLACK (on a computer screen) IS NOT GOOD.
BLACK ON WHITE (on a computer screen) IS NOT GOOD.
WHY!?
Because it's not about black versus white -- it's about the
brightness and/or color contrast that determines how comfortable it is for readability or sustained viewing. Read this excerpt from one of my posts on another forum about my Google search boxes (that delivers results pages in dark, easy on the eyes color schemes.
What's better than white/black or black/white?
Try mixing a little white into the black along with mixing a little black into the white -- in other words, dark gray on light gray or vice versa.
Here's an excerpt from a response I made on another forum regarding my color customized Google results pages:
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Go to one of the lamps in your apartment and turn the lamp on. Then take the lamp shade off so that you're looking at just the bare bulb. Now move in close to it -- enough so that you can read the small letters at the top of the bulb that say "60 watts." Instead of just having to look at this burning bulb long enough to see what the wattage is, let's type an e-mail message onto it and have you read it -- how about several messages, NO -- let's make a whole Web page out of it, WAIT, let's do better than that, let's browse the Internet for two hours at a time reading the words on this light bulb! How about this -- let's make the bulb really huge, say 16 X 12 inches - to fill my eyes with as much glaring white light as possible! -- Maybe I should just end it all by turning my eyes directly towards the sun so that I can become blind in only seconds.
White backgrounds for computer screens are a carry-over from print media (paper is usually bleached white -- text is usually black). As personal computers came into existence part of the "schtick" was to make the screen look like a printed page -- which meant black on white. Computer monitors didn't start out this way -- the absence of light is what made up the background -- light was used to make up the letters (white on black), much like a radar screen.
...even though the color white is "clean and angelic," there's no way I'll stare at a poster-sized light bulb for hours at a time. Computer screens are not paper, and are not printed on with ink! -- They don't have to be white, nor should they be.
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If you search Google a lot, you may want to see how it looks to do Google searches without that glaring, white hot background that burns holes in you head:
http://www.jeffs-icons.com/My_Google_Colors.html
And for all of you Webmasters out there who are in the disgusting habit of omitting your text color tags or background color tags from your documents or CSS style sheets, please see the following article. You know who you are -- and you're contributing, unwittingly to all the suspicion and doubt about who is spamming or not -- because of a blind assumption that browsers automatically default to a white background with black text when these tags are missing -- you're all dead wrong!
http://www.jeffs-icons.com/Text_Color_Tags.html
In case you're interested, the main page of my Web site is:
http://www.jeffs-icons.com