Grey on grey is the new black on white
I understand that #000000 on #ffffff can be a little harsh on the eyes and i use a dark shade of grey instead of pure black for larger bodies of text on this site myself, but this color scheme (grabbed at typogenerator.net) is going a wee bit too far. If you don’t want me to read what you’ve written, don’t put it on your page in the first place.
Perhaps i’m just getting old and cranky, but lately i find many sites suffering from poor legibility. The recently launched lifehacker springs to mind: They’re not as bad as the example above, but their grey-on-white text fades when viewed from anywhere but the perfect viewing angle on my display and their font is so tiny that i wonder whether their designer worked on a 72ppi screen.
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