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by __z
4016 days ago
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I, too, have problems reading many websites that insist on using light grey. Perhaps off black would be better to read but the misuse of grey text has a real world effect on people who are older and/or people with bad eyesight. Off black and grey aren't the same thing. I am baffled by designers coming in and discounting the people who say "this is hard to read for me" with "no it isn't." For me, I open up firebug and change the text to black. It is amazing how often I can't read something some "designer" thought looked good with a complete disregard for functionality. I am wondering (serious question) if grey on white is so easy on the eyes why are all books (as far as I'm aware) published with black text? |
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One of the web's greatest problems has been defining itself in relation to printed media. From use of font types, colour and page layout, margins and line spacing, the web is not on printed paper. Why do you think the two are the same?
I am not disputing that there is a lot of bad design out there, one of my personal peeves is tiny text. I've seen real UX people use a 9pt font because it looks good on their screen, but is impossible to read on anything else and when you don't hold your face 4 inches from the glass.
I've said this before and I'll say it again, one of the problems with UX is the number of "experts" who are self-taught. It's like web-design/development circa 2001, everyone was claiming to be a "web-dev" but in practice hardly any could do more than basic html & tables. UX, imo, is like that now.