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The article should be called "glass text", because I can barely see it.
by BugsJustFindMe 6y ago
The article should be called "glass text", because I can barely see it.
- alphabet9000 6y agolately i have been having a pavlovian reaction to seeing barely readable text on websites - i associate it in my mind with downvoted HN comments
- coldpie 6y agoFirefox's Inspect Element tool comes in handy a lot lately. You can use it to disable CSS styles to make text readable. I feel like that would make for a good browser extension: detect the page background color and make all text on the page either #FFF or #000 as appropriate.
- DavidVoid 6y agoYou can also just press F9 to toggle reader view.
- coldpie 6y agoThat is a great tool, and I should use it more often. Sadly doesn't help for some cases, like the code snippets in Apple's docs. Have to use the Inspect Element tool for that. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2091/_index.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2091...
- IIAOPSW 6y agoPoor mans option: press ctrl+A to highlight everything on the page.
- kgin 6y agoReader Mode in Safari is the main reason I use it. One click and any unfortunate website styles change into plain text, any size and/or font I want.