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That looked somewhat interesting, but man, my eyes just totally rebelled at the light gray font on a slightly lighter gray background. Especially on a weekend,
by Turing_Machine 6y ago
That looked somewhat interesting, but man, my eyes just totally rebelled at the light gray font on a slightly lighter gray background. Especially on a weekend, after too many hours of screen time already this week.
Why do people do this? Do they not want people to read their stuff?
That kind of thing is fine for a large heading in an Apple ad, but is actively user-hostile for long-form text. Note that Apple itself uses proper text contrast for its long-form documents.
- greenyoda 6y agoI also find web pages like this unreadable. I'd recommend using a browser extension, such as "Dark Reader", to solve this problem. It even lets you adjust contrast/brightness on a per-site basis. It's available for Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Safari. https://darkreader.org https://darkreader.org
- samatman 6y agoI agree with that, there's a printable version with better contrast but then the margins are too wide for my taste: http://thoughtmesh.net/publish/printable.php?id=367 http://thoughtmesh.net/publish/printable.php?id=367 I just put this sort of site through reader mode but it shouldn't be a requirement.