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 "rg

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.