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> WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS Because designers are taught that too much contrast causes eye strain. They're advised against putting pure black text on bright w
by Veen 6y ago
> WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS
Because designers are taught that too much contrast causes eye strain. They're advised against putting pure black text on bright white backgrounds.
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/how-the-web-became-unreadable/ https://www.wired.com/2016/10/how-the-web-became-unreadable/
- enraged_camel 6y agoI hate Youtube on dark mode for that reason: it's white text on black background and I struggle to read comments!
- iamacyborg 6y agoThey're doing you a favour.
- wrycoder 6y agoWhich leaves you seeing phantom lines when you look away from the screen.
- dathinab 6y agoBut to little contrast causes so much more eyestrain, and can't be fixed by changing your screens brightness.
- kuschku 6y agoToo much contrast can't be fixed by changing your brightness either unless you like spending several hours calibrating it again after every single blogpost you read.
- dathinab 6y agoI have said it pretty often in this comment section, but the huge majority of internet users has no finely calibrated screens at all. They also won't have screen where they are likely to feel anything has too much contrast. IMHO a screen which displays a common black and white website with so much contrast that it strains the eye is a 100% failed product which completely ignores reality.
- kuschku 6y ago> IMHO a screen which displays a common black and white website with so much contrast that it strains the eye is a 100% failed product which completely ignores reality. A website which has so much contrast that it strains the eye on any spec-compliant monitor or a cheap 1990s CRT is a failed product. Reducing the quality of monitors to compensate for shitty websites can't be the solution.
- dathinab 6y agoBlack and white web pages had been pretty much the standard since well the invention of the internet... Same for black and white text documents. Or black and white shell promts. And so on. So it's pretty obviously for me what is detached from reality and what isn't. EDIT: It's the color space which is broken I guess, white (on a website) should be neutral background white not eye hurting brightness and the color space should have some "whiter then (normal,neutral) white" colors. I.e. the normal white color should not have defaulted to maximal brightness.
- kuschku 6y ago> EDIT: It's the color space which is broken I guess, white (on a website) should be neutral background white not eye hurting brightness and the color space should have some "whiter then (normal,neutral) white" colors. I.e. the normal white color should not have defaulted to maximal brightness. Sure, but that's already the standard. The people who obsess over using #fff as default white just happen to be the ones whose monitors show #fff the way #ccc was supposed to be shown (and used to be shown, on CRTs)
- Matumio 6y agoI never managed to read this article past its title. I always get distracted by the fact that, after one second, the text gets obscured behind a pop-up.