Balancing text for better readability
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Balancing text for better readability
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Re: Balancing text for better readability
#2I think it's odd that a post about readability has grey text (#686868) on a white background. Next to the black screen grabs the text is very light.
Re: Balancing text for better readability
#3I think it's odd that a post about readability has grey text (#686868) on a white background. Next to the black screen grabs the text is very light.
I didn't have any trouble reading it. Felt relatively natural to me, actually.
Re: Balancing text for better readability
#4Wouldn't it be easier and give you more editing control to just put text in a
element? Seems like it would be hard to algorithmically determine what will visually look good
Re: Balancing text for better readability
#5Why not just use the Knuth-Plass algorithm as implemented in http://www.bramstein.com/projects/typeset/?
Re: Balancing text for better readability
#6I think it's odd that a post about readability has grey text (#686868) on a white background. Next to the black screen grabs the text is very light.
I agree, I changed/fixed it in firebug before continuing reading...
Re: Balancing text for better readability
#7I think it's odd that a post about readability has grey text (#686868) on a white background. Next to the black screen grabs the text is very light.
The contrast ratio is 5.57:1 well above the 4:5:1 requirement. It seems that they're using Adobe Clean Light ( Helvetica Neue Light as a fallback). This must be the source of your readibility problem. Depending on browser/platform font-weight: 300 can be a huge problem.
[1] http://juicystudio.com/services/luminositycontrastratio.php#...
Re: Balancing text for better readability
#8I think it's odd that a post about readability has grey text (#686868) on a white background. Next to the black screen grabs the text is very light.
I noticed the same thing. Since other people are disagreeing, this may depend on platform or device
Re: Balancing text for better readability
#9Why not just use the Knuth-Plass algorithm as implemented in http://www.bramstein.com/projects/typeset/ ?
None of Knuth's extensive work on typography seems to be well respected among designers (I'd love to be proven wrong about that).
Re: Balancing text for better readability
#10I think it's odd that a post about readability has grey text (#686868) on a white background. Next to the black screen grabs the text is very light.
Which device are you using and with what light settings? I've received one report from a user saying that the text on my site is "unreadable" due to the contrast but nobody inside my organization can see what the problem is, so I'm interested in how other people are experiencing such problems.