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Tell HN: Gray text on white background sucks the blood out of my eyes

11 pointsby mrpixelover 13 years ago
HN posts are so enjoyable. Unless I'm thinking up novel animal names for designers that confront me with such a "color" scheme, because 1) I have a very hard time reading even halfway through interesting posts, 2) I'm jealous, because my vision is obviously suboptimal, 3) I only got a laptop, and its display demands contrast.<p>It's bad. It's itching. And it's obvious. Try to find something printed with gray text on white background. Ads and porn not included.<p>Please! Stick to essential typography! Make it BLACK on white. TNX1E6

5 comments

flashingpumpkinover 13 years ago
You can fix it with a simple user script for your browser.<p>User script, install to have black font in comment threads: <a href="https://gist.github.com/raw/1600378/95ad884caa17d8a02f1f425a1d15e5e4b7a43647/hn-black.user.js" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/raw/1600378/95ad884caa17d8a02f1f425a...</a><p>And the gist: <a href="https://gist.github.com/1600378" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/1600378</a>
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andreifover 13 years ago
Stylebot or Stylish can help your eyes<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oiaejidbmkiecgbjei...</a><p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/</a>
karlztover 13 years ago
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/af/firefox/addon/color-toggle/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/af/firefox/addon/color-toggle/</a><p><a href="http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/change-colors/" rel="nofollow">http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/chang...</a>
mooism2over 13 years ago
It's to encourage you to make the post on your blog instead, submitting the link to HN.
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funkahover 13 years ago
While you're waiting for the ocean to boil, use Readable or Readability or Safari's reader feature or...