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by lorenzhs 2338 days ago
Terrible contrast? Firefox's accessibility inspector gives the text a contrast ratio of 15.17, with 4.5 being the minimum for what qualifies as good and 7 as the recommended minimum for good readability.

I change text colours in the web inspector a lot because plenty of websites these days are medium gray on light gray with a font-weight of 100, but this clearly isn't one of them. It's fine to say you don't like the colour, but the contrast is great.
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asadkn 2338 days ago
It's not that the contrast is low (which is another problem on its own, I agree). It's the other extreme - too high of a contrast [1] by using a fully saturated yellow and black. The same reason you don't use #fff on #000.

[1] https://uxmovement.com/content/why-you-should-never-use-pure...

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toastal 2338 days ago
Not to mention you can always toggle reader mode if you don't like the aesthetic choice of a blog.
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