Negatives take parentheses
Never red. Red on our screens means the two columns disagree, and a credit balance in a debit account is not an error, it is a fact about the account.
Our software does not ask you for an amount and a direction. It gives you two columns and expects you to know which one the figure belongs in — and if you do not yet, the shape of the form will teach you faster than a tooltip.
Never red. Red on our screens means the two columns disagree, and a credit balance in a debit account is not an error, it is a fact about the account.
A figure that counts up from zero to 48,201.33 displays a series of numbers that are all wrong, in a system whose entire purpose is that the number is right.
Every screen has a print stylesheet that keeps the double rules and drops the green to black. Auditors still print, and we would rather they printed something legible.