From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Feb 12 15:53:17 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 1B638F02E08 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:53:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from kicp.uchicago.edu (kicp.uchicago.edu [128.135.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA91D7BAEA for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:53:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from point.uchicago.edu (point.uchicago.edu [128.135.52.6]) by kicp.uchicago.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DBB71803E; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:53:09 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Font color To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca, Ed D Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" References: From: Valeri Galtsev Message-ID: <3c39f87d-db3e-3c04-499e-8a3a51c7950d@kicp.uchicago.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:53:09 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 15:53:17 -0000 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)? > > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++