Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:39:38 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <mike@jeays.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Font color Message-ID: <1b3e8203-4b30-e8f9-6660-4450a294958b@jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <CAPu-kW_nAOODpb1JebroSBqGL%2BC%2BsfO87pr0%2BrYuBPAjH5o10Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPu-kW_nAOODpb1JebroSBqGL%2BC%2BsfO87pr0%2BrYuBPAjH5o10Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 18-02-12 12:22 PM, Rob Belics wrote: > While it is a design decision, the vast majority of art professors are not > necessarily typographers. Though typography is art, too, what we see > walking down the street is not the same as reading type. > > There is nothing wrong with black (#000). Boks still print in solid black > with white background. If the glare of the white background is too much, > you can decrease the contrast but, even then, one needs to be careful to > maintain contrast. > > Yes, gray is a color, too, but using it means you have a reason to do so > and, far too often, some web sites use gray text because someone else did, > or they read about it somewhere, but no other reason they have knowledge of. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" About a year ago I wrote to the editor of the BCS magazine "IT Now", saying that light gray text, in a small font, was very hard for older people to read. He wrote back saying I had a good point, but I haven't seen any change in the magazine.
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