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Light gray text is a DTD (designer-transmitted disease) that's rapidly infecting sites across the Internet. (When it's really light, I use Firebug to modify th
by kennyroo 18y ago
Light gray text is a DTD (designer-transmitted disease) that's rapidly infecting sites across the Internet.
(When it's really light, I use Firebug to modify the CSS.)
- eatenbyagrue 18y agoI second that. The designers I work with have this fetish for low contrast designs that may be super mod and hip, but seem to lower usability to me. In general I agree that black on white might be a little harsh, but when you have squint to make out the text it's over the top.
- Retric 18y agoOne option under Firefox is View > Page Style > No Style. It's black text on a white background, but you lose indenting. I tend to use this when I want to read text from a site that's really hard to read.
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- alabut 18y agoEasy on the anti-designer bigotry there, dude, it's only the crappy designers that use super low contrast text just because they think it's cool. That's not the case here - see my comment below and pg's confirmation for a rational discussion behind its usage here on HN, it's a very intentional decision and serves the intent well. Now whether the intent is right or not (should HN morph more into a Metafilter-like free-for-all message board for hacker types, rather than a structured conversation around links?) is a different discussion. I like the current orientation towards news.
- ewiethoff 18y agoRemember CSS Zen Garden (http://www.csszengarden.com/ http://www.csszengarden.com/) and The Zen of CSS Design book? And Zeldman (http://www.zeldman.com/ http://www.zeldman.com/)? Way cool when cutting edge designers were figuring out what CSS 2.1 is capable of. But such low contrast! And lots of tan. Then the candy-colors-on-white "Web 2.0" look hit... Another year, another DTD.