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As a young designer I redesigned a major news site with a lighter gray text on white. I looked great to me - perfect and very readable. But I didn't consider t
by jweir 9y ago
As a young designer I redesigned a major news site with a lighter gray text on white.
I looked great to me - perfect and very readable. But I didn't consider the older eye, or other eyes, which don't let in as much light.
Hopefully the author will learn and adjust. Contrast is good.
- slackingoff2017 9y agoNot just eyes, shit computer and phone screens. The worst screens have half the colors and a quarter the brightness (and relative contrast) of the best.
- s_kilk 9y agoYup. A lesson for the designers among us: almost no-one is viewing your site on your 5k iMac screen. Design accordingly
- akst 9y agoI'm actually having trouble with the contrast as well. But I don't think the colours them selves are absolutely unusable together, I think the combination of the colours and the font weight/size is really the issue (although that could be less the case on a retina screen). It also doesn't help that I'm viewing it on a older monitor with poor colour control (particularly with contrast).
- draven 9y agoLight grey on white is readable on my work macbook pro, but unreadable on my old x201. It really depends on the display.