[kevinastock]

It should be alternating lines with red, black and blue not greys, it's to increase reading speed: http://www.beelinereader.com/

[theon144]

It "should" not, see the "Blues" option :)

[mantrax4]

What a coincidence that sites using it, including the beelinereader.com site itself, use super-tight line-height.

Thing is, line-height helps with the same issue (but without the weird colors), so if they'd fix that, the funky colors aren't as useful anymore.

But I guess we gotta save the trees from those printing their web pages or something.

Whatever one may prefer, I see they offer a plugin, which is a better way to use this tech, not by random sites forcing it on us.

[gwern]

> What a coincidence that sites using it, including the beelinereader.com site itself, use super-tight line-height. Thing is, line-height helps with the same issue (but without the weird colors), so if they'd fix that, the funky colors aren't as useful anymore.

If it's super-tight, why did loosening it not seem to help? http://www.gwern.net/AB%20testing#line-height

> Whatever one may prefer, I see they offer a plugin, which is a better way to use this tech, not by random sites forcing it on us.

Is it better? That seems like the sort of claim that should be tested...

[hamburglar]

Is it intentional that the text starts out as all black and slowly changes color line by line down the entire document over the course of about 10 minutes, or is my android browser hitting some sort of pathological performance scenario?