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Contrast Rebellion

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Re: Contrast Rebellion

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Post by mech422 »

fsh wrote: post #6

One of the worst offenders is Obsidian. Users on hn keep praising the UI, but by default the menu text is borderline unreadable under less than ideal lighting conditions.

I don't complain too much about VS Code and Obsidian as there are so many themes that are just a click away... I even have matching themes for them, which is nice since I use them together a lot.

But in general, I have issues with site font sizes and contrast as well. I'm extremely near sighted, and getting older - I have no idea how people can actually read long form content on cell phones with the tiny screens...

Re: Contrast Rebellion

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Post by pmontra »

kdazzle wrote: post #22
kentonv wrote: post #20

Weirdly, this site uses `color: #1b1b1b` instead of black. Why? The difference is barely noticeable, but black provides more contrast and IMO looks better than #1b1b1b. I've seen many designers assert that being slightly off-black is "better" for some reason, but isn't this the same argument that eventually leads to low-contrast designs? Why is a little bit of contrast reduction good, but a lot is bad? Pure black alw…

First time I read an argument against all black in design was this 2012 article. Something about it not being a color found in nature. Then, yeah, some people seemed to interpret it as “use gray on gray”. https://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/

Backlit screens are not found in nature too. Maybe 100% black is appropriate in that unnatural environment. It's great on my screen.

Re: Contrast Rebellion

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Post by noisy_boy »

Dark reader[0] has been a godsend when it comes to readability. Sure the content isn't how the creator intended it but most of the pages don't have a dark mode option so Dark Reader's rendering suits my eyes and I find that to a certain extent, it also improves readability, especially for those low-contrast texts.

[0]: https://darkreader.org/

Re: Contrast Rebellion

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Post by mthoms »

doodlesdev wrote: post #2

It would be nice since they are advocating for readable text if the font sizes were appropriate on mobile. Even funnier is that lighthouse shows a multitude of accessibility problems in the page including.... low contrast. https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-contrastrebellion-c... Apparently the reason for the awful sizing on mobile is missing the responsive viewport meta tag... IDK, I agree with the content of…

It was written in 2011. Was that tag in regular use at that time? I have no idea.

Re: Contrast Rebellion

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Post by layer8 »

kentonv wrote: post #20

Weirdly, this site uses `color: #1b1b1b` instead of black. Why? The difference is barely noticeable, but black provides more contrast and IMO looks better than #1b1b1b. I've seen many designers assert that being slightly off-black is "better" for some reason, but isn't this the same argument that eventually leads to low-contrast designs? Why is a little bit of contrast reduction good, but a lot is bad? Pure black alw…

The irony is that “pure black” (#000) is already off-black on non-OLED displays. IPS displays in particular are relatively low contrast and have poor black levels, often further worsened by IPS glow.

Re: Contrast Rebellion

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Post by FiddlerClamp »

For the past 20 years, I've been using the 'zap' and 'zap images' bookmarklets from this web site:

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html

They don't work on every site, but they're a good start. 'Reader mode' bookmarklets like https://github.com/lordastley/readable can often be configured for simple white on black text too.

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