Background colour in pages document

Is there a way of having white as my background colour for my document and using white script?

Peter, thank you for your response.
I wasn't trying to lock horns with you.
Your story about your sister in law made me laugh.
To be certain, I am NOT arguing that black text on white background is less legible
[I'm sure you are correct that it is more legible. That would stand to reason].
I am saying that staring at lots of white light hurts my eyes and I don't like looking at it for a long time.
I'm sorry you disagree with what I have experienced that applies to me personally over many years.
However,
I don't think that's superstition.
That's years of personal experience, related to my own personal eyeballs [not yours].
To drop pretensions of science,
I'm afraid what this boils down to is I can't be told what I like to see, or look at for long periods, and what is more comfortable for me personally.
To use a very rough analogy :
Would it be more painful for you to stare at a very intense little ball of light [or a few of them] / [or a neutral-coloured ball of light] against a dark night sky?
OR at a few black dots in front of , perhaps not the sun, but some other similarly but far less intense light across say, the sky as a backdrop, all of that light shining in your eyes?
Would you rather try and read small text on a dim lightbulb, or against a fully-lit lightbulb?
You may be different. I personally prefer the text on the more neutral lightbulb.
I'm perfectly happy to be surprised, but I don't think you were addressing a slightly separate topic: legibility, rather than photoreceptors being bombarded with hot-light all day.
While legibility is a factor related to eyestrain, I would suspect for different reasons,
and ultimately, what negligible-difference I may lose in legibility is far-more than made up for by not having to stare at a flat panel beaming hot-light into my eyes all day.

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