There's also the factor that web-designers generally do their work on high-quality, big monitors (and an environment that doesn't impair viewing, etc etc). Some

There's also the factor that web-designers generally do their work on high-quality, big monitors (and an environment that doesn't impair viewing, etc etc). Some of them probably do test their designs on other monitors? Like you'd maybe also test your web-application on a low-powered machine. Anyway, a lot of them probably also don't, but still a lot of the general public has less than optimal viewing conditions. And ashwoods, I'd also be interested in that research if you can dig up that you find particularly illustrative. (anecdotal: I often enough open the Inspector tool to disable a `body { color: #555; }` style definition, myself)