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Re:The beauty of a text only webpage by dcchambers on Friday August 15, 2025 @11:34AM (#44913667)
Do you actually have trouble reading it?

#111111 is pretty close to black.

According to https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/, the contrast is 18.88:1 and easily passes all of the accessibility tests.

Re:The beauty of a text only webpage by bitpush on Friday August 15, 2025 @11:36AM (#44913691)
There's an #EEE text on #FFF at the bottom of the post.
Re:The beauty of a text only webpage by zahlman on Friday August 15, 2025 @11:57AM (#44913973)
The title is also showing up as #EEE on #FFF for me, but the inspector view is showing a bunch of other "computed" colour values in the CSS.
Re:The beauty of a text only webpage by Elfener on Friday August 15, 2025 @11:40AM (#44913741)
And the title too.

The page has a @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) style that causes this, so those in light mode are unaffected.

Re:The beauty of a text only webpage by dcchambers on Friday August 15, 2025 @11:44AM (#44913799)
Oh - I'm in light mode and all the text on the page is #111111 with a #ffffff background. Switched to dark mode and now I see what you're saying - indeed that's not great.
Re:The beauty of a text only webpage by coder543 on Friday August 15, 2025 @11:39AM (#44913730)
There seems to be a bug in this blog's stylesheet where the headings are significantly lower contrast if the browser renders prefers-color-scheme as dark instead of light.

I had my browser/OS in light mode, so the contrast was excellent, but I tried dark mode just to see what would happen, and it was... not excellent.

Re:The beauty of a text only webpage by albanbrooke on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:08PM (#44914126)
Thank you! This is my site, and your comment helped me fix it.
Re:The beauty of a text only webpage by accrual on Friday August 15, 2025 @11:42AM (#44913765)
Yes, I found the main body perfectly readable, but the lighter grey on white could be a problem for some. I'd use something like #777 or darker here.
Re:The beauty of a text only webpage by dcchambers on Friday August 15, 2025 @11:45AM (#44913801)
Oh - I'm in light mode and all the text on the page is #111111 with a #ffffff background. Switched to dark mode and now I see what you're saying - indeed that's not great.
Re:The beauty of a text only webpage by layer8 on Friday August 15, 2025 @12:33PM (#44914432)
One problem is that IPS panels only have a contrast ratio of 1:1000 at best, meaning that #000000 black is already gray.
Re:The beauty of a text only webpage by nosioptar on Saturday August 16, 2025 @11:46AM (#44924448)
I often have trouble with grey fonts. Thanks to dyslexia, the letters look all fuzzy.

This particular website isn't bad. If the grey were just a bit lighter, it would be.