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by cimmanom 2823 days ago
But can you actually READ your monitor when it’s dimmer than a sheet of paper in ambient light?
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If the contrast of the text is high enough, yes. For many websites this means custom CSS to disable the gray font color, but I do that anyway.
Not much. I can't read those trendy gray on white web sites too.
why does it have to be dimmer than ambient?