Re:Perfect Motherfucking Website
by stan_rogers on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:30PM
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If white on your monitor is brighter than a "bright white" sheet of paper viewed under the same lighting - or normal lighting if, for some reason, you've decided to work in the dark - you're doing it wrong.
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Pure white on my monitor can't be created by CSS anyway, thank god, that'd be a full 1014 nits and actually is painful to look at.
But this is a general issue - you want to be able to represent extremely high contrast, far beyond the brightness of a sheet of paper in photos, movies, games, etc. But you want a significantly lower contrast for text. Sadly, websites mix both and offer no way to configure them separately.