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Great post! Please, HN, change the color of text in posts like the above. There is very little contrast between #828282 (copy) and #F6F6EF (background), and I
by thomasmallen 18y ago
Great post!
Please, HN, change the color of text in posts like the above. There is very little contrast between #828282 (copy) and #F6F6EF (background), and I for one am sick of having to fix this with Firebug.
- pwoods 18y agohere here!
- river_styx 18y ago*hear hear
- jcl 18y agoI've always assumed that this font coloring is meant to discourage people from making lengthy text-based posts on HN.
- thomasmallen 18y agoI think that's what a letter or word limit is for, though.
- palish 18y agoArtificial limits don't seem like the correct answer. The community is the filter.
- slater 18y agoUse the "zap" bookmarklet, found here: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html Add it to your bookmarks toolbar, and any site you use it on will turn all text into black-on-white (in fact, it gets rid of most background colors and images), remove anything flash-based, links are changed to blue & underlined, etc.