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by kirillcool 2435 days ago
Ironically, even though the contrast ratio of the body content is technically passing the contrast threshold, it's unpleasant to read. It's the combination of the lighter shade of grey, small font size and the thinness of the font glyphs themselves.
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Great point! That's one of the reasons we also changed the fonts we use in our product interfaces around the same time, including removing any usage of `light` font weights. We haven't yet made a similar change to our blog design, but it would be a solid improvement for legibility.
I took one look and immediately checked the comments to see if someone else had already brought this up. I looked at the images then, but reading the text itself was too much effort for me.