There's no chance of too much contrast on an LCD displaying dark text on a light background. People have no trouble reading high quality print in sunlight, and

There's no chance of too much contrast on an LCD displaying dark text on a light background. People have no trouble reading high quality print in sunlight, and that has much higher contrast. Grey text is harder to read, as demonstrated by the studies cited. Eg. this one finds pure 100% black on 100% white is most legible: http://www.laurenscharff.com/research/agecontrast.html http://www.laurenscharff.com/research/agecontrast.html Black text is the default, and changing it to grey only makes things worse. This is superior web design to the vast majority of sites out there: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ But note that excessive contrast can harm legibility of light text on dark background (although that color scheme is less legible, so it should be reserved for cases where it has real benefits, eg. photo editing software, where it makes it easier to see shadow detail).