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TheDong on April 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Contrast Rebellion

Asking visitors to make adjustments to their taste is far easier and less hostile than asking a webdev to create a webpage which uses colors that every person who visits it will like. In fact, it's not just hostile to the webdev, but impossible.

DanBC on April 27, 2015 [–]

But I'm not asking designers to guess what visitors will like. I'm asking designers to avoid a narrow range of colours that we know people hate.

There is no reason to use light grey text on a mid grey background for text that you want people to read.

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