Black and white: classic!

[beccaelizabeth]

The thing I use the 'zap colors' button for the single most often? Not pink on purple, green on blue, or any of those obvious eye waterers. Grey on grey. Or sometimes grey on white. Anything where someone has looked at a perfectly good black and white page and decided to turn the contrast down with their html or style sheet rather than their very own monitor contrast button.

Black text, white background. Leave people to customise on their own. Make pretty colors around the edges where we don't need to read.

I know I'm grumping and I know I used to do all sorts of 'pretty' things with text and background that don't fit my current rule*, but I know I also used to be able to read them easier. Now I have more learnings and more grump.


(*I know I also have pages on my current DW site style that don't have a white background, but that's personal incompetence, not a design choice.)

Comments

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

This is something that annoys the hell out of me, especially if it's a comm and not a personal page - I've asked a number of comms to adjust their settings as I can't read pale grey text on a white background to no avail. I now look at those pages in my own style which is a nice clear white against dark blue.

[anne_d]

I hear ya - white on black, grey on black, blue on black... what, don't they want people to read their pages?

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Now, I wouldn't think that white on black would be bad as it's still a high contrast.

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I have light writing on dark background as I find light backgrounds hurt my eyes after too long - I don't even have a white background on word docs!

[anne_d]

White on black, teeny letters, bifocals... It's all too blurry.