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like hackernews?

• amelius 8y ago
  Good point, but hackernews does both.
  • dspillett 8y ago
    Does it? I'm seeing RGB(0,0,0) for body text in my browsers inspector. Lighter shades are used for other elements though. Be careful when using both (or going too far with either). I see many sites where the contrast between the text and its background make them uncomfortable for me to read, and my eyes are fairly OK so people with vision problems probably find such sites impossible. If you want a commercial incentive to not do this: I just hit the "read mode" button or similar, and that strips your adverts as well as recolouring and enlarging the text, and if that doesn't improve things enough the same content is often available on another site a quick google away...
    • amelius 8y ago
      You are right! Interesting, because the body text visually appears to be dark-gray (at least that's what I think).
      • dspillett 8y ago
        I think that is a combination of the light background reducing the contrast (as you are concentrating on the text not the background it appears that the text is closer to white rather than the background being further from it), and a fair number of the pixels not actually being true black anyway due to font-smoothing trickery (more so if you are using a non-high-DPI display and an OS that is using a font renderer which prioritises strict shape accuracy over snapping to the pixel grid to reduce blur).