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Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

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Post by rkangel »

From "http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/" which is one up the chain:

> A little less contrast

WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS. To give this person credit they have at least chosen some sensible values, rather than gone with something that was just about enough on an expensive graphic designer high-contrast monitor and then not tested it on anything else. Leaving the rest of us squinting to try and read text or manually overriding CSS.

Despite not being a complete idiot, they have still made the content harder to read. Contrast is good. It makes things easier to read. Why would you want less? Yes I know the art theory stuff about never using black because it doesn't appear naturally. You know what else doesn't appear naturally? TEXT. Black on white is a perfectly acceptable default, please don't change it for your body text without a really good reason.

(ranty style done in homage to the linked websites, but it felt good to get that out)

Re: Perfect Motherfucking Website

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Post by progval »

> And did you let the browser choose the font? Don’t make me read such text with Times New Roman.

I don't understand this attitude. If you don't like Times New Roman, why don't you change your browser's default font?

What I don't like is when websites tell my browser to use a different font or different colors than the ones I configured.

(Off-topic, but something that really annoys me is websites that make text in very dark grey without changing the background; as I configured a black background and white text)

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