I found this article on Digg. They reference this page explaining energy usage of a sample monitor with different solid background colours. Now it doesn’t specify whether the observations were taken using a CRT, an LCD, an OLED display or whatever exotic display type you can think of. I’d imagine it is based on a CRT judging by the old operating systems listed in the Energy Star section. It makes fascinating reading but I don’t believe that the same principle applies to LCDs, especially seeing as one of the main determinants of quality of an LCD is its contrast ratio.
Besides, where would you rather go?
Here:
or here:
