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Gotta love HN, only popular site in world where a list of hex codes on a nicely formatted website gets to top ranking
*oklch codes And trust me, I didn't expect to get more than 10 upvotes max. I'm slightly bewildered.
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I think there's too much focus on 'readability' these days. At work we have a new team that's making us measure all the contrasts for people with reading difficulties. Contrast has to be > 80% or something. And text sizes huge. And they don't allow us to change our themes. Or to install plugins like dark reader "for security". Problem is, it makes everything super fugly and eye-straining for everyone else (considerin…
The OS makers solved this long ago -- settings. That team could just listen to the OS settings for 'high contrast', font size, etc and adjust their UI to match.
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I think there's too much focus on 'readability' these days. At work we have a new team that's making us measure all the contrasts for people with reading difficulties. Contrast has to be > 80% or something. And text sizes huge. And they don't allow us to change our themes. Or to install plugins like dark reader "for security". Problem is, it makes everything super fugly and eye-straining for everyone else (considerin…
Colour blindness (to take a single issue) is commonly quoted at about 4.5% globally (exact percentage varies by ethnicity so it varies by country). Your "0.5%" figure wildly underestimates the issue IMO. I agree that local settings should override. But lets start with something legible and override with finely-graduated pastels, not the other way around (as part of a wider push towards good UX defaults). (Using a hig…
Addressing an issue that affects 10% of a particular demographic (especially when that demographic is over represented on the internet in general) is wise, but the answer is not just “choose better colours” because of the many different forms of colourblindness.
The answer is choosing sensible defaults (stick to frequently used patterns your users have encountered before), support with high-contrast iconography and shape where possible, and don’t rely on colour alone for any part of your design (use tools like https://www.toptal.com/designers/colorfilter to see how your design survives through colourblind eyes).
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Are scrollbars to indicate scrollable content a design failure too? The site seems great to me, and I don't have issue with the explicit indicator.
Any scrollbar would be nice, but I'd like to introduce you to mobile browsers that hide scrollbars by default.
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Are scrollbars to indicate scrollable content a design failure too? The site seems great to me, and I don't have issue with the explicit indicator.
What? That makes no sense -- scrollbars are there so you can drag them around and scroll, not just to indicate scrollable content. Not at all analogous in this case. The site looks nice overall, but the explicit indicator is bad design regardless.
All I see is black text on a white background. I'm using Firefox on Android. I assume it's supposed to show more?
Edit: apparently it uses Oklab/oklch() [1], which is supposet to work in Firefox since version 113, but does not seem to work in 115. Or possibly it also uses something else that breaks it.
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value...
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"uchu" translates closer to "space" (spaceship -> uchusen), (alien -> uchujin), "I want to go to outerspace" -> "uchi e ikitai". You can't sub universe in those. Yes, a dictionary may use that translation, but watch a space documentary and they won't use "uchu" by itself for "universe". Also, in English, "universal" and "universe" are clearly related, but in Japanese, the concept of "universal" has almost nothing in…
Genuine question as an amateur, what would be a better translation for "universe" than 宇宙?
If you go back 150 years, you're more likely to encounter 天地 where now you'd see 宇宙, while the former incidentally does invoke the spiritual or religious overtones that "universe" can have, albeit those are stronger in 天地 as a function of it being a tad archaic.
You might see 万物 or the lyrical 森羅万象 where English uses "universe" to mean "all things"; 世界 when talking about a person's universe/world; 領域 for delimiting a universe or domain of consideration; 全人類 in places where English is being poetic about humanity; or even 宇宙 in certain mathematical contexts.
Those are just off he top of my head, but I think you get the drift.
TIL about oklch() https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value...
https://v0-oklch-visualiser-e69nx1.vercel.app/ Made a visualiser using v0 to understand it better :)