You read thousands of lines a day. Cold, bright-white editors and terminals are why your eyes feel gritty by evening. Méditerranée warms the white point, cuts the glare, and holds contrast where reading is easiest — across every editor and terminal. You feel it the first night.
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1// A Mediterranean diet for2// your eyes: ration the blue3// like sugar, keep the warm4// light. Prevention is the5// best medicine.67import { warm } from "./optics"89@matte10class Screen {11 readonly zone = "Golden"12 const BLUE_MAX = 0.181314 warm(lux: number) {15 return lux < 12016 ? "Ember" : "Golden"17 }18}
You notice it within minutes: no glare shining back, less late-night blue, and colour that stays easy on the eyes all day.
The screen stops shining into your eyes. A calm, matte field instead of a bright panel — the difference you feel by mid-afternoon.
Warmer light means less of the blue that keeps you wired and dries your eyes out. You wind down at night instead of buzzing.
Every colour sits where it's easiest to read — clear enough to see at a glance, never so harsh it makes you squint.
You don't have to take our word for it. Every choice below comes from published research on how eyes actually work — so it's your comfort backed by science, not by taste.
Digital eye strain (computer vision syndrome) is recognised by the American Optometric Association: prolonged screen work leaves eyes tired, dry and aching. The fixes are less glare, fewer harsh contrasts, and warmer light.
Shifting screen-white from ~6500K toward 2700–3000K cuts much of the 400–450nm band that drives fatigue and suppresses melatonin.
Warm off-white with dark charcoal beats #000-on-#fff — the extreme glares, and pure black haloes for astigmatism. Contrast belongs in a band.
Photopic sensitivity peaks near 555nm, so olive, saffron and terracotta read with the least effort. Short blue scatters most.
A 341-reader study found warm, cream-leaning backgrounds raise reading speed — the standard recommendation for reduced fatigue.
WCAG AAA sets 7:1 for long-form comfort — crisp for lower vision, short of the harsh maximum. Every light calibration lands there or better.
On dark, saturated colours vibrate, so accents desaturate ~30% into pastels on warm dark-grey — and the dim control moves the text, not the ground.
Straight answers — what it does for your eyes, what it doesn't, and what it costs.
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