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- morphie, on 11/02/2007, -5/+430And this comes from a website where all text is light-gray.
- mentol, on 10/16/2007, -1/+89Man the blue text on the red background killed my eyes :(
- caledoniaman, on 10/16/2007, -2/+58I ran their site through a contrast analyser. Fails on God knows how many foreground/background combinations. They should perhaps practise what they preach.
- dani8559, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31I checked the comments just to make sure everyone else was catching this. On my CRT (yeah, I'm living in the 20th century) the text is painful to read.
- indyjones85, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23This reminds me of what my design professor says, "there is no such thing as bad design, if it's bad design it is not design at all."
- kevisazombie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22hahahaha anal
- tortfeasor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18It helps when the text is readable without causing one's eyes to bleed from the strain.
- Alchemeron, on 10/16/2007, -4/+19Ugh. This website is light-grey on white. Hello, Pot? It's the Kettle.
- woxidu, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19dugg, despite the shameless eharmony ad in the end
- madcaesar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Fix the text ahole!
- graealex, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13http://flickr.com/photos/graealex/1542130749/
- TheSkunkMonkey, on 10/16/2007, -1/+13Glass houses.
The contrast of text on that site is horrible. Light gray on white? It actually hurt my eyes straining to read that article. While the advice is spot on, the author/site owner need to consider it themselves.
Going with the point made that you want high contrast for items you want to direct your visitor to, it's clear this site is designed to make the ADS pop out at you as the rest of the site is completely subdued. - 10goto10, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I could swear I've seen an article AND a comment just like this yesterday...
- Wuss, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12took the words right outta my mouth.
- chidori, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10is not that bad.. just look at google, digg, nytimes...
- rderveloy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Why am I being buried? There are examples of bad design all around us every day. The bad choice of text color in the article is a perfect case in point. Burying your head in the sand isn't going to change that.
- springboks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I'm glad the text is light gray, when my boss sees my monitor they figure I'm reading real important work related stuff. Minimalism is best!
- heyitsgarrett, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10How does light gray text correlate to work?
- rderveloy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10I see what your professor was trying to say, but comments like that blindly embrace an ideal while tuning out reality.
- fluorite, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8And that is the idea that rderveloy is objecting to.
Accepting defaults is "not design at all." Choosing eye-wrenching colors is *bad design*. - springboks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8if it doesn't look like fark.com it looks like a business/ news site.
- MtheoryX, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I think what he is getting at is that there is no such thing as bad design. There is design, and not. If it's good, its design. If its bad, its not design at all.
At least, thats what I think he's getting at. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6i like dark backgrounds ~ all that white with 12 hours a day on the net is punishing ~
- skyshock1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Why contrast is important in photos - http://www.killsometime.com/Pictures/images/BlackS ...
- RecoDesign, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6How about reading at least the first comment before posting the same thing someone else does.
- tape, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I saw this headline and figured this was a response to that one. But no!
Oh the humanity. - TheDreadDiggerD, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6"Why the title of your page should be 'OMG!!! PONIES!!!'"
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -0/+5Contrast analyzer? I'm intrigued.. link?
EDIT: Nevermind, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=contrast+anal ... - svivian, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5He's a textaholic, he can't live without textahole
- cobracommander, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Exactly what I was thinking. Oh Wow let's make a blog post about the obvious!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Buried for being hypocritical, and/or unknowingly ironic.
- gmhafiz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6My eyes bleed reading those text. Wait, I cannot read them.
Can't you practice what you preach? - HonoredMule, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4My default background color (In all window panes, not just browsers) is a moderate light grey. Most sites don't bother to set a background color at all, and as such look really stupid, but don't hurt the eyes so much.
- jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7although not well presented, the point is to have right amount of contrast, not to maximize contrast. in some cases you might want to maximize it, in some minimize it and in most cases you want something in between.
- tnoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They did not even follow their 50% rule for their text.
- Theisos, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4The goggles do nothing!
- thailand1972, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Also the form inputs have light grey borders, making the textfields/textareas pretty much white-on-white with the background (hard to select with mouse, need to tab through), as well as the form buttons being very light grey.
Why do those who contemplate design all day have to be "clever" and arty? Can't they just use common sense? Or is that too simple, too obvious? - Ubermann, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I elect this guy "King of the Obvious."
- tyywebb, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Don't worry it's just the matrix screwing up.
- Ireland, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Like the guy a while back who companied about useless 404's, and then his appeared, and it was exactly what he said 'no't to do.
- HigherLogic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4It's better to use an extremely light white and almost black, like #f7f7f7 to #f9f9f9 for the white, and #111111 to #333333 for the black. It is easier on the eyes too.
- palmer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2And the original point was modded down why? It's true; no one is even challenging that.
- phenom2k7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2lol, nice one.
- palmer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Why in hell should anyone turn down the brightness on his monitor, ruining the reproduction of pictures or other materal, just because some morons force an inverse color scheme (like Digg's) on you?
- Konstantino, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Irony at its finest.
- hackmyballs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2For the love of god, never color text above #444 ktxby1
- swatward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2is that you Maddox?
- resplence, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2#fff is prettier.
- mbelleghem, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2dug for the josh wink reference.
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