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Stop using grey text (2025)

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Re: Stop using grey text (2025)

#31
I created a ycombinator account after years of resisting, just to respond to this post. Stop creating web pages with huge-ass gutters/margins.

If you are concerned about design you would realize your page looks ridiculous and borderline illegible on modern screens (that are not phones). Text color is an issue, but layout is worse.

Re: Stop using grey text (2025)

#35

I created a ycombinator account after years of resisting, just to respond to this post. Stop creating web pages with huge-ass gutters/margins. If you are concerned about design you would realize your page looks ridiculous and borderline illegible on modern screens (that are not phones). Text color is an issue, but layout is worse.

Ah, thank you. The next version of the page will include a YUUUGE sitemap on the left and the table of contents on the right.

We'll also add a wonderful floating text input box to let you chat with our helpful AI assistant.

Re: Stop using grey text (2025)

#36

I created a ycombinator account after years of resisting, just to respond to this post. Stop creating web pages with huge-ass gutters/margins. If you are concerned about design you would realize your page looks ridiculous and borderline illegible on modern screens (that are not phones). Text color is an issue, but layout is worse.

This doesn't seem too far off from ~80 characters per line, which I believe is best practice for readability. Though you could make the column wider and bump up the font size and it would be even more readable.

Re: Stop using grey text (2025)

#37
> I actually believe increasing contrast for everyone improves the information density of our content.

You used css to change the pointer. So instead of the I-Beam I had to use a regular pointer to select that text. Information density is nice but information access shouldn't be compromised either.

Aside from that, while this is true, I'd think you'd then want something better for your users than "font-family: system-ui".

Re: Stop using grey text (2025)

#38
post #23

While we're wishing, let's bring back serifs. I, for one, would like to be able to tell the difference between AI and Al without context clues, and using an inherently lossy font is the opposite of "readability".

Found secretary of education Linda McMahons account

Re: Stop using grey text (2025)

#40
post #26

I was reviewing a confluence page which was reviewed my many stakeholders. Something bugged me to an excruciating extent about the content of the page: something was off at some parts of the text. I inspected the page and it turns out the font color somehow changed to a mildly grayer color than black. This was likely due to a copy-and-paste that has gone wrong.

This problem has been haunting me for years, except in Google Docs. At some point, some template my team used had slightly gray text, and I STILL find it cropping up in our most recent documents.
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