Background colour on pages

Please can you help, I used to set the background colour on my windows so didnt get white glare..and so no visual migraines, but I don't know how to sort the apple..is it not possible to set a background colour that only shows on screen but doesn't send or print with that colour? Many thanks C

You can dim your monitor to comfortable levels in your System Preferences. Particularly on the new LED screens which dim down to extremely low levels.
However I think you are more likely to develop headaches trying to read content with too little lack of contrast than too much. As for coloring the background, readability studies show black and white is by far the best for readabilty.
But then there is no end to the crazy illogical excuses people will come up with for doing the oddball things they do.
Peter

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