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by 8chanAnon 629 days ago
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".
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gabrielsroka 629 days ago
Even Google Chrome's Lighthouse said that your background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
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8chanAnon 629 days ago
Every dark mode site in existence should fail that test.
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dewey 629 days ago
No, because the contrast can still be good as the colors are just reversed?
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pwg 629 days ago
> 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.

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