William Burke, University of Sydney, Australia

https://doi.org/10.36866/pn.102.6a

I enjoyed your article about the search for PN 1 in issue 100. I did respond to your earlier request, although not until June. In July I sent the first 6 issues of the precursors of PN to Hodgkin-Huxley House and their receipt was duly acknowledged. It’s possible that they have not yet been brought to
your attention.

Moving from PN 1 to the present day, may I make a suggestion about the design of the current publication? I have always enjoyed receiving PN but it can be greatly improved by avoiding mixtures of colour and text.

Text is most readable when there is good contrast between the text and the background. The best contrast is when the text is black and the background is white. A bad contrast is when the text is white and the background is black or colour, especially pale colour. Pages 10 and 42 in the current issue (100) of PN are examples and are very hard to read. By all means use colour but keep it away from text.

Editor’s note: this has now been addressed