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Yes I agree that there are special considerations for e.g OLED where I also prefer pitch-black background. My argument was just that the medium can hugely influ
by halotrope 4y ago
Yes I agree that there are special considerations for e.g OLED where I also prefer pitch-black background. My argument was just that the medium can hugely influence the design and needs to be taken into consideration. Also books are kind of a special category as they contain a LOT of text. So legibility really is the primary concern. With the often shorter prose on the web I feel we can give a little leeway. I would trade dark gray text for removal of intrusive ads any day of the week. Also a lot of books (at least in Europe) are also set in Serif typefaces. Something which did not really translate fully to the web either. Stuff like max line length, font size and kerning are also very important and often neglected elements of typography on the web.
- mdp2021 4y ago> Also books are kind of a special category as they contain a LOT of text :) I assumed that the context was that of focused-reading material, long text. Even the movement at https://www.contrastrebellion.com/ https://www.contrastrebellion.com/ does not use B/W everywhere... I assumed that we were discussing a context where «legibility really is the primary concern». For an aside, a title etc., function prevails - it works in a context; optimal readability: "for the time I will spend on it"... But the web is full of articles - long text - set as grey on grey.