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This very light grey text on white background = almost unreadable. (Firefox 89 on linux) https://contrastrebellion.com/ https://contrastrebellion.com/

piinbinary 5y ago
Interestingly, the background is black for me in Chrome, and white in Firefox (both under macOS)
- ezekg 5y ago
  Almost seems like Chrome has some default styles for dark mode, such as a black background on <body>. Edit: TIL about the color-scheme (draft) CSS property. FF doesn't support it.
- 00jimbo 5y ago
  similarly, it renders light on black/dark grey for me in safari.
Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
Reader mode to the rescue! It is almost the default way I consume most blogs and news sites, reading experience is so much better!
- gtirloni 5y ago
  Same here. I use it on every other website and it's just great.
Freak_NL 5y ago
Something is screwy with the dark-mode CSS.
- LeifCarrotson 5y ago
  Yep, it's fine unless you use a dark mode, in which case it looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/7XwxrSb.png https://i.imgur.com/7XwxrSb.png If you're not using dark mode, it's #EBEBEB on #121212, which has plenty of contrast: https://contrast-ratio.com/#%23EBEBEB-on-%23121212 https://contrast-ratio.com/#%23EBEBEB-on-%23121212 If you're using dark mode, it doesn't simply do nothing, which would be the reasonable approach with those colors, it gives you that light gray text on #FFFFFF pure white background. It's basically the opposite of dark mode.
jodrellblank 5y ago
> "Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
dang 5y ago
"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit - ah: I see the author is present. Ok then!
- deleted 5y ago
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grork 5y ago
Apologies for this -- I apparently failed to test on dark mode in Firefox. I fixed it up just now (https://github.com/grork/personal-blog/commit/b9df1e924ef29606f82e49afe8c3604e4c866b8d https://github.com/grork/personal-blog/commit/b9df1e924ef296...), and should be much more readable.
- SkyMarshal 5y ago
  Much better, thanks!

piinbinary 5y ago

Interestingly, the background is black for me in Chrome, and white in Firefox (both under macOS)

ezekg 5y ago
Almost seems like Chrome has some default styles for dark mode, such as a black background on <body>. Edit: TIL about the color-scheme (draft) CSS property. FF doesn't support it.
00jimbo 5y ago
similarly, it renders light on black/dark grey for me in safari.

Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

Reader mode to the rescue! It is almost the default way I consume most blogs and news sites, reading experience is so much better!

gtirloni 5y ago
Same here. I use it on every other website and it's just great.

Freak_NL 5y ago

Something is screwy with the dark-mode CSS.

LeifCarrotson 5y ago
Yep, it's fine unless you use a dark mode, in which case it looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/7XwxrSb.png https://i.imgur.com/7XwxrSb.png If you're not using dark mode, it's #EBEBEB on #121212, which has plenty of contrast: https://contrast-ratio.com/#%23EBEBEB-on-%23121212 https://contrast-ratio.com/#%23EBEBEB-on-%23121212 If you're using dark mode, it doesn't simply do nothing, which would be the reasonable approach with those colors, it gives you that light gray text on #FFFFFF pure white background. It's basically the opposite of dark mode.

jodrellblank 5y ago

> "Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dang 5y ago

"Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit - ah: I see the author is present. Ok then!

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grork 5y ago

Apologies for this -- I apparently failed to test on dark mode in Firefox. I fixed it up just now (https://github.com/grork/personal-blog/commit/b9df1e924ef29606f82e49afe8c3604e4c866b8d https://github.com/grork/personal-blog/commit/b9df1e924ef296...), and should be much more readable.

SkyMarshal 5y ago
Much better, thanks!