Font color

[James B. Byrne]

On Mon, February 12, 2018 10:53, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>
>
> On 02/12/18 08:42, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, February 11, 2018 17:05, Ed D wrote:
>>> I'm very curious why all web site creators, young men I'm sure, use
>>> gray font. Sometimes even medium gray on light grays background.
>>> Occasionally lite gray font on white background. What's wrong with
>>> clean black? I'm sure there some technical reason other than to
>>> just
>>> peeve older folks who have hard time to read it.
>>>
>
> The common trend of modern websites is to obfuscate the information.
> Gray font on gray background if one of the great ways of making text
> unreadable. However, this already becomes the past, these days they
> remove text alltogether, all the websites have are huge pictures.
>
> Valeri
>
>>>
>>> Regards, Ed
>>
>> 50 Shades of Gray(sic)?
>>
>>
>

One might even be tempted to say that these are 'Dark' patterns.




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