Terminal Green
One font, one colour, no distractions.
Terminal Green is the setup for people who work in the dark and mean it. The whole room is arranged so nothing competes with the screen: matte surfaces, no reflective finishes, bias lighting behind the monitor so your eyes are not doing all the contrast work themselves.
Start here
- 1 Bias lighting behind the monitor
- 2 A matte, non-reflective panel
- 3 Blackout window covering
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Questions people ask
- Is working in a dark room bad for your eyes?
- A bright screen in a fully dark room forces the pupil to work against a large luminance difference, which is associated with reported eye strain. The usual fix is bias lighting — a modest light behind the monitor that raises the surrounding brightness without adding glare to the screen.
- Does a matte screen finish actually reduce strain?
- It reduces specular reflections, which are the sharp mirror-like highlights that make you refocus. Matte coatings scatter that light instead, at the cost of slightly softer text. In a dark room with controlled lighting the benefit is smaller than in a bright one.
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