[pivnicek]

That font is garbage, hard to read, it's like they'd been downvoted on HN.

Please end the light text trend, let us read.

[tomrod]

Yes! So many websites are practically unreadable due to low contrast.

[dredmorbius]

Contrast Rebellion:

I've also found Readability (Instapaper and Pocket are similar) a huge breath of fresh air: http://www.readability.com/articles/jzhgvevd

There's also Stylish / Stylebot browser plugins which let you modify site CSS. I've ... become a tad addicted to that.

/me checks.

Yeah, over 700 sites that I've styled now. Contrast and font sizes are a big nit, nuking annoying elements is another. More drastic layout revamps are still another use, though I reserve that for a small number of sites.