[tripzilch]

> It's recommended to avoid pure white for text, and I chose likewise to avoid pure black for the background.

This is such nonsense. Pure black is never pure black on a monitor and neither is white. And the link he provides just restates the assertion with no additional reasoning.

See, I get it. If you create work as an artistic statement, you deliberately pick not-quite-blacks/whites because the defaults are not your artistic choices if you just default to them.

However, once you take this as a given rule and you pick some not-quite-white because "it is recommended", that defeats the entire purpose.