Lack of contrast is a design trend that's been going on for quite a while. However, I don't think the example you cited is a particularly egregious example of

Lack of contrast is a design trend that's been going on for quite a while. However, I don't think the example you cited is a particularly egregious example of lack of contrast. It's not ideal, but it's much better than the gray on light gray body text I've seen before. There's actually a formula you can measure this. http://juicystudio.com/services/luminositycontrastratio.php http://juicystudio.com/services/luminositycontrastratio.php http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ The color code of #626566 on a background of #FFF yields a ratio of about 5.9 to 1.