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It'd be nice if this was a bit readable. Thin fonts and light grey is impossible for old eyes.

teraflop 9y ago
The text is dark gray on my screen (hex color #4d4d4d, which is 70% black). You might want to try adjusting your monitor settings.
- _Codemonkeyism 9y ago
  How rude to someone who has difficulties to see because of age.
  - teraflop 9y ago
    I certainly didn't mean to be rude...? I was trying to help OP identify and fix the problem they were having.
  - guru4consulting 9y ago
    rude? I thought he was being helpful
- sriram_malhar 9y ago
  Well, I have a regular MacBook pro with a retina display with no customization, and it has been well calibrated for most every webpage I have seen.
gdrift 9y ago
So right. I have a grease monkey script globally to inject css to make text black. Which works well except when the background is dark of course. But I find reading light text on dark background also an effort so I usually just skip that.
tomalpha 9y ago
Reader mode in Safari (at least on iOS) renders this nicely for me automagically, and turns the grey to a nice black. For the desktop I was going to recommend Distill Mode in Chrome (add --enable-dom-distiller to the command line/launcher, then it's available from the vertical "..." menu top right) but it didn't behave the way I remembered it. You get a nicely formatted page with all (or at least most) of the extraneous crap filtered out, but the grey remains. Internet Explorer supposedly has a Reading Mode too, but I can't find it on my desktop.
- kroltan 9y ago
  Firefox has a reader mode too, which works perfectly also.
- sriram_malhar 9y ago
  Oh yes, thank you. I'd forgotten all about that .. it works well. Overall it'd be nice if I didn't _have_ to do it though.
rambojazz 9y ago
On Firefox you can ask the browser to disable CSS, or even just to ignore any text color defined within CSS (thus using your browser defaults).
- littlestymaar 9y ago
  Or just use the reader mode.
kuschku 9y ago
The text is larger, and thicker than usual text in a newspaper or book, and it is just as black, or even more black (measured on a calibrated display). You might want to change your monitor, or recalibrate it, because it seems like this is an issue with your display. Photo: https://i.imgur.com/o5bknYs.jpg https://i.imgur.com/o5bknYs.jpg (The text on the newspaper there is #574839, while the text on the linked site is #454545. The text in the newspaper is the equivalent of 10px tall, and 1px thick, the text on the site is 16px tall and 2.5px thick)
- zzzcpan 9y ago
  Poor contrast and unreadable font is still visible even on your screenshot, the complaints are valid.
  - kuschku 9y ago
    > Poor contrast and unreadable font is still visible even on your screenshot, That’s an artifact of the camera, not the page. On a properly calibrated screen supporting the Rec.2020 colorspace with at least 1000 nits of color, this will have more than enough contrast. The big problem is that today, between #454545 and the background a user with a 1000 nits screen and one with a 100 nits screen will see a difference in contrast of almost an order of magnitude. TL;DR: Either you need to calibrate your screen, need a better one, or we need a way to specify the absolute brightness that a page should be shown with in code.
    - sriram_malhar 9y ago
      I have the latest MacBook pro with a Retina display. It is a superb display, and if that needs to be calibrated at all to view a web page, something is definitely wrong with the web page.

The text is dark gray on my screen (hex color #4d4d4d, which is 70% black). You might want to try adjusting your monitor settings.

_Codemonkeyism 9y ago
How rude to someone who has difficulties to see because of age.
- teraflop 9y ago
  I certainly didn't mean to be rude...? I was trying to help OP identify and fix the problem they were having.
- guru4consulting 9y ago
  rude? I thought he was being helpful
sriram_malhar 9y ago
Well, I have a regular MacBook pro with a retina display with no customization, and it has been well calibrated for most every webpage I have seen.

gdrift 9y ago

So right. I have a grease monkey script globally to inject css to make text black. Which works well except when the background is dark of course. But I find reading light text on dark background also an effort so I usually just skip that.

tomalpha 9y ago

Reader mode in Safari (at least on iOS) renders this nicely for me automagically, and turns the grey to a nice black. For the desktop I was going to recommend Distill Mode in Chrome (add --enable-dom-distiller to the command line/launcher, then it's available from the vertical "..." menu top right) but it didn't behave the way I remembered it. You get a nicely formatted page with all (or at least most) of the extraneous crap filtered out, but the grey remains. Internet Explorer supposedly has a Reading Mode too, but I can't find it on my desktop.

kroltan 9y ago
Firefox has a reader mode too, which works perfectly also.
sriram_malhar 9y ago
Oh yes, thank you. I'd forgotten all about that .. it works well. Overall it'd be nice if I didn't _have_ to do it though.

rambojazz 9y ago

On Firefox you can ask the browser to disable CSS, or even just to ignore any text color defined within CSS (thus using your browser defaults).

littlestymaar 9y ago
Or just use the reader mode.

kuschku 9y ago

The text is larger, and thicker than usual text in a newspaper or book, and it is just as black, or even more black (measured on a calibrated display). You might want to change your monitor, or recalibrate it, because it seems like this is an issue with your display. Photo: https://i.imgur.com/o5bknYs.jpg https://i.imgur.com/o5bknYs.jpg (The text on the newspaper there is #574839, while the text on the linked site is #454545. The text in the newspaper is the equivalent of 10px tall, and 1px thick, the text on the site is 16px tall and 2.5px thick)

zzzcpan 9y ago
Poor contrast and unreadable font is still visible even on your screenshot, the complaints are valid.
- kuschku 9y ago
  > Poor contrast and unreadable font is still visible even on your screenshot, That’s an artifact of the camera, not the page. On a properly calibrated screen supporting the Rec.2020 colorspace with at least 1000 nits of color, this will have more than enough contrast. The big problem is that today, between #454545 and the background a user with a 1000 nits screen and one with a 100 nits screen will see a difference in contrast of almost an order of magnitude. TL;DR: Either you need to calibrate your screen, need a better one, or we need a way to specify the absolute brightness that a page should be shown with in code.
  - sriram_malhar 9y ago
    I have the latest MacBook pro with a Retina display. It is a superb display, and if that needs to be calibrated at all to view a web page, something is definitely wrong with the web page.