[jcynix]

Yeah, the zoom, that almost needs to be customized per website, sigh. But one of the worst misfeatures for old (and maybe not so old) eyes, is the gray text on some "pastel" background. Contrast helps readability (as does a carefully chosen font), but "modern" designers seem to think contrast is bad or outdated or whatever.

[wolpoli]

Well modern designers deliver mockup filled with Lorem Ipsum so no one notices that the text is hard to read.

[bhaak]

> but "modern" designers seem to think contrast is bad or outdated or whatever.

I think much more reasonable is the assumption that many designers have Macs with good monitors and there you can still read it well.

Whereas most people have old or poorly color calibrated monitors where you only get a grey goo.

[jcynix]

I have a state of the art Macbook too, and a good monitor, but I still find light grey text hard to read. Because I have old eyes with suboptimal eyesight.

Anyway, it would be reasonable if designers tested their designs with other people on other hardware, instead of thinking "looks fine for me" … at least that's what I learned about design, user interfaces, etc ;-0