Re:Perfect Motherfucking Website
by jschwartzi on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:04PM
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Yeah definitely. And also be sure to switch all your keys on your keyboard to a hardwood. I prefer mahogany for its bright clicks and depth of response versus the equivalent plastic keycaps.
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If you use these high contrast colors, you will break it for users on good displays. That means potential investors, people on iPhones, people on expensive samsung phones.
Those are the people you usually want as customers. And you're making your website painful for them. That's a decision you can make, but don't be surprised if you'll fail with that attitude.
Re:Perfect Motherfucking Website
by jschwartzi on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:24PM
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Unless I'm writing a blog or something, in which case I'm not looking for customers and I really don't care if anyone reads it or not.
Even in that case you should consider that your readers might have a diverse range of devices, and configuring a 1000:1 contrast ratio isn't exactly the greatest solution.
Keep colors and contrast restricted to the range possible by reflective materials (i.e. what can be printed on paper or ever be encountered in nature) and all the issues are immediately gone. You don't have to use grey-on-grey (which is super annoying). Just keep to the range of colors a newspaper will have, or a zebra will have.