[alanh]

Pure blue light does the least to stimulate the rods that help you see shapes clearly, only activating blue cones. This is why compression algorithms and some screens use 2 or 4 times as many bytes or phosphors for green as they do for blue https://biodifferences.com/difference-between-rods-and-cones...

This is also why writing a word in pure blue neon lights is really dumb. Adding just a little bit of green to it helps readability immensely.

[ymolodtsov]

I'm really interested in this topic since I've always noticed this, but not sure about this explanation as to why. I mean, yes, Bayes filter is like 2x1x1 for green, *red* and blue, and the most popular explanation has always been that our eyes perceive green better than both red and blue. Yet I don't have issues with red LED lights.