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> I appreciate and value his opinions that there should be no pure black in the creative product we make together. Is this why the most fashionable websites ar

• an_opabinia 6y ago
  Instagram's text color, the first but not the last I'll check, is "rgb(38, 38, 38)." I wouldn't characterize it harder to read than this website, which uses "rgb(0, 0, 0)", or easier to read than the NYTimes (the third), which uses "rgb(85, 85, 85)." Anyway, I would hardly characterize those as fashionable, they are some of the portals on the Internet. So maybe you're talking about a different site, or something, but certainly, among the most mainstream sites, there is a consensus to not use pure black in the font.
• httpsterio 6y ago
  Aesthetic design and usable design are very different things. If the sites you're talking about are made by people who care more about making things look nice instead of being usable, then yeah that would be the issue. WCAG2.1 has some great guidelines when it comes to color contrast in digital text and as long as those are adhered to, most people will have a near optimal experience consuming that text. And yes, too big of a contrast difference is not great either. Just try to throw bright yellow on top of a black background, it's gonna hurt your eyes pretty quick.