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by rkangel 953 days ago
This website is a throwback to a design choice that (thankfully) has mostly died off - choosing a mid-grey for your text, making it much more effort to read.

I used to have Stylebot pinned to my extensions to fix it, but haven't had to do it in ages. Designers - please don't do this.

(I think it comes from people designing on much higher contrast Apple monitors and not testing on anything else)

2 comments

Ironically, your own (downvoted) comment on this site is even more difficult to read.

But you are right, the Tuta article has a contrast ratio of 4.35:1, which doesn't pass even the lower WCAG level (AA = 4.5:1).

Accessibility is important. We are all going to depend on it if we live long enough.

Indeed it looks like all the text is grayed out... like "I'm waiting for you to click that damn accept-cookie button before actually showing the page".