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The author goes out of the way to mention multiple times, the first at the top of the post, that Medium offers very little control in this regard. I think the p

• coldtea 4y ago
  >that Medium offers very little control in this regard I've used Medium to post, and it sure allows one no to use white on purple. In fact, Medium's default, even if not 100% black, is more legible than his choice.
  • rpdillon 4y ago
    I see. Seems like a factual disagreement, in that case: > When viewed through the TangledWeb publication, we have set it to a dark mode, which is probably the best contrast possible per how Medium is configured. I have never used Medium, so I can't comment in this regard.
    • rsstack 4y ago
      "True" black on white contrast ratio: 21 Medium's default very-dark-grey on white contrast ratio: 14.54 This bizarre theme-that-makes-it-hard-to-focus-for-non-contrast-reasons contrast ratio: 14.52 If legibility was important to this author, they could have done the bare minimum to improve the legibility on their own site. The bare minimum was to not change the default theme. A bit above that but more honest to their claim: host somewhere else and use a darker grey.
• petercooper 4y ago
  The author goes out of the way to mention multiple times, the first at the top of the post, that Medium offers very little control in this regard. Maybe true, but this is the first Medium page I've seen with this bizarre color scheme and I hit perhaps 50-60 Medium articles a week in my work. So it's certainly something to do with the theming of his site.