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whats the less eye tiring font?

See: An Excellent Font for Program/Text Editor

Further, the best color combination for reducing eye strain is supposed to be yellow text on black background.

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SoggyDog
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Any (scientific) prove for that?? TBH, I really doubt that!

I heard that a red-blue shift is better for the eyes, which is how ClearType renders text.

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I have no documentation as such, but having an ex-wife with low vision, I do know for certain that yellow-on-black is a very common High Visibility color scheme for ease of readability.

The black is easier on the eyes than white and the yellow provides high contrast with out the halation, or glow, of white against the black.

Search "yellow text" and "black background" and you will find many listings where that color combination is offered as an Accessibility option.

Edit: I did also mean to add the following... The "correct" answer is going to vary from user to user. What is easy to read and gentle on the eyes for some simply doesn't cut it for others. There are some general rules, be sure, but there is no singular, completely correct answer. A lot depends on the users eyes, the type of monitor used, the font size, the ambient lighting, etcetera. For some, the yellow is still too "bright" against the black and I have seen those people use green. Green works well with the natural purple component (rhodopsin) in your eyes.

rhodopsin
n : a red photopigment in the retinal rods of vertebrates;
dissociates into retinene by light [syn: visual purple,
retinal purple]

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SoggyDog
Dwarf Fortress:
"The most intriguing game I've ever played."

of course, the easiest thing on the eyes is to turn off the computer!

Anyway, are you looking for a nice font, or a nice font style (color, bold, etc)?

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anything that could help make our computer session more eye comfortable...

If you're using a tube style monitor you could also try increasing your refresh rate or try switching to an LCD style monitor if you can.

I am waiting eagerly the famous electronic ink / paper screen...
I believe there is a mobile phone already using it, but it is still black & white yet.

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Web page readability: Green text on yellow works the best

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Within that report, we find the following;

"In general these results suggest that there is no one foreground/background combination, font, or word style which leads to the fastest RT (i.e. best readability), but rather a designer must consider how each variable affects the other(s)."

Didn't I already say that?

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SoggyDog
Dwarf Fortress:
"The most intriguing game I've ever played."

Since OP asked about fonts, here's some guidelines:

For Printed Material Body Text: It is best to use a serif font, as the serifs (little thingies at the ends of the letters) help guide the eye to the next letter, and it provides the necessary spacing for vertical line letters (e.g. lowercase-L, lowercase-I, etc.)

My Experience: Times (or Times New Roman) is quite good. Garamond looks ugly in Windows, but very pleasant when printed. Haven't got much experience with other fonts.

For Printed Material Heading: It is best to use a heavy sans-serif font; they tend to make the heading more 'announced'.

My Experience: I tend to use Arial Black for headings, or Arial Rounded. Swiss Demibold also looks good.

For Screen: It is best to use a square-ish sans-serif font; serif fonts makes the screen cluttered because of those 1-pixel serifs.

My Experience: Assuming that you are not talking about monospaced fonts (i.e. fonts for programming), Verdana and Trebuchet are quite good. Arial is also good, but I prefer Verdana or Trebuchet. For programming I either use Dina (a bitmapped font) or Consolas, but with the latter I make sure that I activate ClearType, even on CRT's, as Consolas looks really ugly without CT.

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Sure some colours are easier to read than others ... but this might age specific, your eyes change you know !

If you have alot of 60+ adults on your site, your optimal colours might be different.

Obviously font size is important.
Obviously screen size is important
LCD is easier to read than Tube Monitors.
No light(ie. Window) behind and around your monitor is important.
The correct height of the monitor is important.