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I'm not sure that this argument works. #000 on my screen isn't black either. It's dark grey. Doesn't this mean avoiding #000 for design aimed at screen displa
by rlpb 14y ago
I'm not sure that this argument works.
#000 on my screen isn't black either. It's dark grey.
Doesn't this mean avoiding #000 for design aimed at screen display cause you to avoid pure black twice, and thus just reduce contrast? Perhaps that's what you want, and what looks better. But it isn't because #000 is pure black, because no screen can achieve that.
- tinco 14y agoHe does not only tell you to reduce the contrast, which with a good enough screen can be arbitrarily high, he also advices you to increase the saturation. And pure black can not have saturation.
- hwillis 14y agoMy first thought as well. But there is an argument to be made that the screen is a different world, and the black of the screen looks as unnatural as pure black in the real world. I think this would apply less to a phone or something with a short view time, as adjusting to the new color palette would take us some amount of time.