From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Feb 12 16:20:43 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 72ECFF04FCE for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:20:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca) Received: from inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [216.185.71.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca", Issuer "CA_HLL_ISSUER_2016" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1C0B87CF52 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:20:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C21C62422; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:20:41 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at harte-lyne.ca Received: from inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IGLv1OTUuWzI; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:20:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from webmail.harte-lyne.ca (inet04.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [216.185.71.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8A411623E4; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:20:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from 216.185.71.44 (SquirrelMail authenticated user byrnejb_hll) by webmail.harte-lyne.ca with HTTP; Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:20:37 -0500 Message-ID: <95c2a035a6a8fd29cccb37c45ffa8278.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: <3c39f87d-db3e-3c04-499e-8a3a51c7950d@kicp.uchicago.edu> References: <3c39f87d-db3e-3c04-499e-8a3a51c7950d@kicp.uchicago.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:20:37 -0500 Subject: Re: Font color From: "James B. Byrne" To: "Valeri Galtsev" Cc: "Ed D" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Reply-To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22-5.el6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal 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 16:20:43 -0000 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. -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail Do NOT open attachments nor follow links sent by e-Mail James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3