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I hit this same same issue too. I tried to eliminate white backgrounds, because I find it tiring on my eyes and a bit painful. These sites made it too annoying

I hit this same same issue too. I tried to eliminate white backgrounds, because I find it tiring on my eyes and a bit painful. These sites made it too annoying to change the defaults, so I ended up giving up (and just always having my screen brightness near minimum). But before I gave up I started collecting sites that either set background-color and not font color, or set color but not background-color: https://gist.github.com/mrspeaker/1846b6b0e12c76f7eeb2 https://gist.github.com/mrspeaker/1846b6b0e12c76f7eeb2. There's a useless list for you!

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LoSboccacc 8y ago
there's a contrast/brightness button on most hardware, why have low contrast websites by design? just tune your monitor! it will then work for websites, games and everything else. it will also allow you to handle contrast reducing it at night and tuning up when the monitor is struck with some glare, without having to change the css! imagine the convenience! software developer: using hammers for everything since 1842
- mrspeaker 8y ago
  I don't want low contrast, I just wanted to swap my browser default foreground/background colors (low brightness is just my hacky workaround). The "bug" on these sites is that if devs set a default background-color they should also set a default font color: either set neither properties, or set both. Setting one means the default of the browser will be used. Most of the time it's background=white, foreground=black, so no one notices, but it means the option is gone for people who do want to modify them.
  - LoSboccacc 8y ago
    > I don't want low contrast > I tried to eliminate white backgrounds, because I find it tiring on my eyes and a bit painful. yes, yes that's exactly what you want. besides you can tune both gamma and tone both in software and hardware on most platforms; this isn't rocket science people had the ability to tune the monitors to their liking since television had colors
    - a1369209993 8y ago
      No, they want[0] white text on a black background. That's not low contrast, that's high contast, unless you're suggesting a 'contrast' of -1.00, which is not what most people think of as "low contrast". 0: IIUC
scns 8y ago
Try the firefox plugin "dark background light text"

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LoSboccacc 8y ago

there's a contrast/brightness button on most hardware, why have low contrast websites by design? just tune your monitor! it will then work for websites, games and everything else. it will also allow you to handle contrast reducing it at night and tuning up when the monitor is struck with some glare, without having to change the css! imagine the convenience! software developer: using hammers for everything since 1842

mrspeaker 8y ago
I don't want low contrast, I just wanted to swap my browser default foreground/background colors (low brightness is just my hacky workaround). The "bug" on these sites is that if devs set a default background-color they should also set a default font color: either set neither properties, or set both. Setting one means the default of the browser will be used. Most of the time it's background=white, foreground=black, so no one notices, but it means the option is gone for people who do want to modify them.
- LoSboccacc 8y ago
  > I don't want low contrast > I tried to eliminate white backgrounds, because I find it tiring on my eyes and a bit painful. yes, yes that's exactly what you want. besides you can tune both gamma and tone both in software and hardware on most platforms; this isn't rocket science people had the ability to tune the monitors to their liking since television had colors
  - a1369209993 8y ago
    No, they want[0] white text on a black background. That's not low contrast, that's high contast, unless you're suggesting a 'contrast' of -1.00, which is not what most people think of as "low contrast". 0: IIUC

scns 8y ago

Try the firefox plugin "dark background light text"