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Dude... the small, light gray text... are you trying to ruin our eyesight?


I don't usually complain about typography or design, but this site is an exception to that rule.

It's incredibly unreadable :)

The content looks good, though, but I have to admit I didn't make it through the whole thing.


Right, came here to say the exact same thing. My eyes aren't the best. First thing I did was to open chrome dev tools and fiddle in 'p { color: black }' to make it readable at all for me..


I wondered what everyone was talking about here, then realized that since I have noscript installed, I was looking at the site with no javascript - and it was perfectly readable. Once I activated javascript I saw what the fuss was about. So much clearer without javascript.


I use the Evernote Clearly extension on web pages like this. It does a great job of improving the readability. It also removes a lot of the non-content stuff around the edges.


I'll see what I can do about that.


Didn't know what was being discussed here re: readability until I realized, oh, site must have a default white background.

On Linux the xcalib package is an absolute godsend, white backgrounds are like being yelled at to these eyes.

Windoze has a similar screen inversion application, but cannot remember what it is right now.


I use an extension called 'change colours' in Chrome. It lets me set different background and text colours, and it allows me to change the link colours, and it allows me to change the font and font size.


I'm guessing he changed it - looks fine here (text is #111)




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