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Light grey on white? Really?!
by lucian1900 14y ago
Light grey on white? Really?!
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoTheir computer must have horribly set monitor or gamma settings...
- rhizome 14y agoEh, if you tweak and stare at something for long enough, you can think anything looks good.
- pydave 14y agoAgreed. I wonder if webmasters can get stats on how often readers use Readability or the like to actually consume their content... To the author: http://contrastrebellion.com http://contrastrebellion.com
- hadem 14y agoYou realize Hacker News is one of their examples of websites with poor contrast?
- veeti 14y agoSo? Hacker News is probably one of the worst designed websites I have ever used both from an usability and aesthetic perspective. It has nothing to do with the fact that this blog post is nearly unreadable.
- lucian1900 14y agoHN is readable to some extent. Not comfortable or pleasant, but ok. That blog is just totally unreadable.
- DanBC 14y agoThe greyed text of HN is used as an example. I agree - the grey text is hard to read. Mostly that's by design; down voted comments are supposed to be hard to read. But when someone starts a thread with a comment, instead of an external link, they grey text is weird and hard to read. The normal text of HN is fine for contrast.
- brandoncapecci 14y agoThe problem isn't the color so much as the miniscule low-weighted font. As opposed to the OP's website, I can read every single one of those contrast rebellion links without issue. Do I win something?
- petercooper 14y ago#666666 isn't a light grey but they set the font-weight to 300 (light) which is the key problem.