---
title: "How's this for less eye strain"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/4/hows-this-for-less-eye-strain.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/4/hows-this-for-less-eye-strain.html"
published: "2003-07-04T21:34:00"
updated: "2003-07-04T21:34:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I was fiddling with the color settings for visual studio, and was trying to get a less eye-straining environment for coding in. Turns out I made the perfect settings.. if I were a black ops agent or something..."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# How's this for less eye strain

By Roy Osherove July 4, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 4, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

I was fiddling with the color settings for visual studio, and was trying to get a less eye-straining environment for coding in. Turns out I made the perfect settings.. if I were a black ops agent or something...

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## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Jul 7, 2003

    ### [Silly quote of the day](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/7/silly-quote-of-the-day.html)

- Jul 6, 2003

    ### [There goes an hour or two](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/6/there-goes-an-hour-or-two.html)

- Jul 4, 2003

    ### [I’ve just learned that a friend of mine is looking for a job.](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/4/ive-just-learned-that-a-friend-of-mine-is-looking-for-a-job.html)

- Jul 3, 2003

    ### [About maintainable code](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/3/about-maintainable-code.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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