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Re:Ask HN: What background color among white or black prefer... by reify on Saturday October 18, 2025 @04:51AM (#45625933)
I'm old and the white backgrounds hurt my eyes.

I used to be forever pressing the F5 key to reduce the screen brightness.

my favourite background reading colour is: #24273a

I found this on the wonderful HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36342085

I LIKE THIS ONE. no orange header.

# ORIGINAL:

  news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: black)  
  news.ycombinator.com##td:style(color: #fafafa !important)  
  news.ycombinator.com##table:style(background-color: #24273a)  
  news.ycombinator.com##div.toptext:style(color: #fafafa)  
  news.ycombinator.com##div.c00:style(color: #fafafa !important)  
  news.ycombinator.com##a:style(color: #ffa000 !important)  
  news.ycombinator.com##span#karma:style(color: #faa000 !important)  
  news.ycombinator.com##span.pagetop:style(color: #fafafa !  important)  
  news.ycombinator.com##textarea:style(color: #fafafa !important; background: inherit; )  
  news.ycombinator.com###hnmain:style(background: #24273a !important)
I adapt this for other sites I regularly visit.

This them for firefrox helps, though I only use librewolf.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/catppuccin-ma...

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