From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Feb 12 18:52:54 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72036F11EA3 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:52:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@jeays.ca) Received: from beaver.sibername.com (siber08d-beaver.clients.netelligent.ca [205.204.89.182]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 119AB85B42 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:52:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@jeays.ca) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jeays.ca; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version :Date:Message-ID:From:References:To:Subject:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=3V1z6iPKnFxuxAJa8zYd4dshA6SXQvpi33FOUis2BsI=; b=uRk67n/qg3bKBKrjef5wX8ZhSG b6yE5G4mE7TEzL1ECiH/fVmtS33F91szpNk/ibl1L3KngpDOOka+aC004kC+fO7RrfAEtys7NIJWh 09MTIza5/Vyuz28oWxu9te7uU; Received: from cpe10bf48915890-cmbc4dfbbee820.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([174.113.149.93]:43278 helo=[192.168.1.9]) by beaver.sibername.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.89_1) (envelope-from ) id 1elI4o-000B7u-Pb for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:39:39 -0500 Subject: Re: Font color To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: Mike Jeays Message-ID: <1b3e8203-4b30-e8f9-6660-4450a294958b@jeays.ca> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:39:38 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - beaver.sibername.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jeays.ca X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: beaver.sibername.com: authenticated_id: mike@jeays.ca X-Authenticated-Sender: beaver.sibername.com: mike@jeays.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:52:54 -0000 On 18-02-12 12:22 PM, Rob Belics wrote: > While it is a design decision, the vast majority of art professors are not > necessarily typographers. Though typography is art, too, what we see > walking down the street is not the same as reading type. > > There is nothing wrong with black (#000). Boks still print in solid black > with white background. If the glare of the white background is too much, > you can decrease the contrast but, even then, one needs to be careful to > maintain contrast. > > Yes, gray is a color, too, but using it means you have a reason to do so > and, far too often, some web sites use gray text because someone else did, > or they read about it somewhere, but no other reason they have knowledge of. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" About a year ago I wrote to the editor of the BCS magazine "IT Now", saying that light gray text, in a small font, was very hard for older people to read. He wrote back saying I had a good point, but I haven't seen any change in the magazine.