Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:20:37 -0500 From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> To: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> Cc: "Ed D" <sampan44@hotmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Font color Message-ID: <95c2a035a6a8fd29cccb37c45ffa8278.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: <3c39f87d-db3e-3c04-499e-8a3a51c7950d@kicp.uchicago.edu> References: <mailman.80.1518436801.93757.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <ba9679472b2153cf7ac784eea0235eb6.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <3c39f87d-db3e-3c04-499e-8a3a51c7950d@kicp.uchicago.edu>
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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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