I mostly use VS Code & IntelliJ for work. The best I've found to reduce my eyestrain was Solarized Light.

VS Code makes it very easy to try new themes, so I did. I found Quiet Light (built-in) quite nice, but when I tried to switch to some darker themes like Nord, I felt this kind of "shimmering" on the screen, accompanied with the all too familiar dizziness and eyestrain I see on the Mac (which I can't & don't use) while on Windows 10.

Here's what Nord looks like:

I wonder if the blue-gray in the Nord theme causes some sort of aggressive dithering on the BenQ GW2765HT 27-Inch 2560x1440 IPS Monitor (sRGB) I am using. For reference: Windows Version 20H2 Build 19042 using HP EliteBook 840 G6 with i7-8665CPU with Intel UHD Graphics 620 on driver 25.20.100.6793. This setup has been pretty comfortable, I get minor strain, but I am able to do a full days of work on it.

In general, light themes have been much better than dark ones for my strain. I wonder if this is related to the esophoria.

Has anyone seen anything like this?

Back during my tests of dithering with capture cards, "different" colors of backgrounds and text outside of a small color palette did contribute to an increase in dithering noise

As for it affecting your setup. I'm not there and I don't have the same hardware on hand so I can't comment.

    JTL

    If my Dasung e-ink is actually accurate in representing dithering, which I’m not sure and obviously your capture card method is far more reliable, black text on white background is the way to go to reduce the impact of dithering .

        degen I don't have the capture files handy, but my findings were similar.

          3 years later
          dev