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It would be nice if he would use black for the text on his blog. Lighter-than-black on white can be painful on aging or strained eyes. This seems to be an unfo
by TheCowboy 14y ago
It would be nice if he would use black for the text on his blog. Lighter-than-black on white can be painful on aging or strained eyes.
This seems to be an unfortunate new color trend. The problem is worse when zooming in on the page doesn't work or is capped.
- inetsee 14y agoI've complained about this trend in the past, and it seems to be getting worse rather than better. I have the Evernote Clearly bookmarklet in my toolbar (it seems to work better than Readability) and I find myself using it more and more often. I don't mind not quite black text on a very (very) light grey background, but far too many websites just don't have enough contrast to be readable.
- scribblemacher 14y agoI agree. For reading, high contrast is exactly what I want. Despite all these trends in UX design, the best user interface is still a white piece of paper with blank ink.
- mistercow 14y agoI'm not sure you can use this particular blog as a good counterexample though. That text is damn-near 40% white, which is ridiculously light.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoThe colors in the blog read fine to me. I have trouble with color bleeding when straight black is used on straight white. I would have gone with something a bit darker, say 60 or 70%, but definitely not 100% black.