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by 8chanAnon 623 days ago
Red text on yellow - you mean the website? Would you like the text to be darker?

And Beautiful Soup should be BeautifulSoup. Who makes the rules?

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Yes, the website. Better contrast is good. Black on white works great.

Margins would also be nice on the left and right.

Beautiful Soup is two words. Just look at their website.

Too much contrast makes it hard to read too. (With bonus eye strain.)
Is there a happy in-between? Maybe not. What looks perfect to one user might appear atrocious to another. What is a poor website operator to do???

I dislike black-on-white and don't understand gray-on-black which seems to be popular now due to gamma settings being cranked up to 11 or something. I try to use some color as an in-between but that may take some time to "perfect".

Even Google Chrome's Lighthouse said that your background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
Every dark mode site in existence should fail that test.
No, because the contrast can still be good as the colors are just reversed?
> Is there a happy in-between?

Since browsers allow users to configure a default font and background color then one possible "happy in-between" would be to set no background color, and set no font color, thereby allowing each user agent (i.e., browser) to display the site with that user's default background and font colors.

In that case, each viewer should get their preferred colors, all without you doing anything.