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Grey is a good indicator of the inner workings of a company regarding their website decision process. Grey text = weak design department with damn expensive mo
by franze 4y ago
Grey is a good indicator of the inner workings of a company regarding their website decision process.
Grey text = weak design department with damn expensive monitors
Grey background = management dabbles in design questions
Grey text & other-grey background = decision by committee
Any color discussed long enough becomes grey.
- dredmorbius 4y agoI've seen speculation that grey may be selected as may mock-up tools default to a greyed "Greeked" text, or just grey lines, as placeholders for actual textual content. When it comes time to install the actual payload, it's presumed / assumed that grey is the text colour, or everyone (designers, reviewers, project owners / managers) are so used to the (non-semantic, incidental) placeholder representation that an unreadable text is simply accepted or presumed as the intent. There are less charitable interpretations as well. One fix would be to insist on high-constrast text in all phases of the design process. Yes, it will be visually distracting, but text should be your principle asset and intention.
- account42 4y agoWhy would you use a different color for the placeholder text in the first place - the whole point of having you design filled with lorem ipsum instead of empty space is to see how it would look with real content.
- dredmorbius 4y agoI suspect it's to put the emphasis on the spatial layout / dynamic features. Though ultimately it would seem that this is in fact starting point to failure itself.