Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text
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Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text
#2I'm all for promoting accessibility solutions to that thin gray font mid-10's design menace that is still plaguing web "design".
Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text
#3I love the “nothing in nature is true black so don’t use #000000” argument.
Correct, nothing is, and your #000000 won’t be either once it’s shown on a physical screen.
Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text
#4I love the “nothing in nature is true black so don’t use #000000” argument. Correct, nothing is, and your #000000 won’t be either once it’s shown on a physical screen.
I find there's often a high degree of educated comments here on HN. But, when it comes to monitors, readability and the physics of light something happens. #000 on #fff won't burn out your retinas. :)
Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text
#5I love the “nothing in nature is true black so don’t use #000000” argument. Correct, nothing is, and your #000000 won’t be either once it’s shown on a physical screen.
Generally I prefer a mid-saturation blue-tinted grey in the #111111 horizontal line for my base text colours, which is basically indistinguishable from black but works better with the other hues on our website.
That being said, it's easy using the prefers-contrast CSS property to override that to #000000 for people who are hard of sight.
It's supported by edge, safari, chrome, opera but it's a bit finnicky in Firefox.
Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text
#6It's great and should be a built-in option - I prefer to minimize the number of plugins but this one is basic usability that will improve the readability of hundreds of thousands of websites.
Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text
#7I love the “nothing in nature is true black so don’t use #000000” argument. Correct, nothing is, and your #000000 won’t be either once it’s shown on a physical screen.
Very much related to my comment [1] two days ago on Please Stop Using Grey Text [2] that says essentially the same thing with more verbiage
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31421666
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31420938 (397 points by marban 1 day ago, 376 comments) - https://tangledweb.xyz/please-stop-using-grey-text-3d3e71acf...
Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text
#8I love the “nothing in nature is true black so don’t use #000000” argument. Correct, nothing is, and your #000000 won’t be either once it’s shown on a physical screen.
This thinking likely stems from art studies: in classical painting, black is generally taught as one of the forbidden pigments because of ”nothing in nature is black” and, more functionally, because it cannot be used to darken other colors without losing vibrancy and thus a black area cannot smoothly blend to another color.
Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text
#9I recommend people with similar interests take a look at uBlock's filter language (yes, the ad blocker). It's a short and shallow learning curve until you can inject your personal CSS into webpages, and incrementally tweak them.
Two small examples:
"Show all text on the internet as black"
*##*:style(color: black !important)
ycombinator.com##.comment:style(font-weight: bold !important)Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text
#10I love the “nothing in nature is true black so don’t use #000000” argument. Correct, nothing is, and your #000000 won’t be either once it’s shown on a physical screen.
I find there's often a high degree of educated comments here on HN. But, when it comes to monitors, readability and the physics of light something happens. #000 on #fff won't burn out your retinas. :)
There's a difference between using "soft black" and using low-contrast gray like you're Apple in the 2010s.
The thing about pure black isn't that it's unnatural, but that when paired with white its contrast can actually be uncomfortable and less accessible than a slightly toned down color combination (especially on full brightness).