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I don't read tiny white text on black backgrounds. I don't care who wrote it, or what it purports to say. Period.
by threnody 16y ago
I don't read tiny white text on black backgrounds. I don't care who wrote it, or what it purports to say. Period.
- AndyKelley 16y agoI think the design is gentle on the eyes. The dark is relaxing and then the gray text contrasts so that you can see it clearly, at the same time not contrasting too much as to blind you.
- callahad 16y agoThen may I suggest the Readability bookmarklet from Arc90? It's available at http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ Or you could use Safari 5, which has it built in. Aesthetics are a terrible grounds upon which to dismiss textual information.
- omaranto 16y agoYou're right about aesthetics being terrible, shallow grounds for dismissal but there is one instance I can't bring myself to be sensible about: old math books that are typewritten with hand-written formulas. I've managed to read papers that are like but so far refuse to read entire books...