On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org wrote:
I agree we should be very careful to preserve readability, but I find that site a little ridiculous.
It's a holy war :D
A few comparisons (solid white bg where not otherwise noted):
medium.com: #333332 for article text, #666665 for less prominent stuff like author blurbs and #b3b3b1 for metadata
quora.com #333 for main q/a text, #999 for metadata *
stackoverflow.com: solid black on solid white. yeah baby! a tiny bit of #777-#888 for some elements. *
facebook.com: #333 for feed content, #999 for metadata. **
google plus: #262626 for feed content just to be different, #999 for metadata ***
Flow: #6d6e70 for comments, solid black for headings, #aaa for metadata. Dark gray on light gray text in the topic boxes
So my sense is that Flow in particular is right now about a whole notch lower contrast than popular sites.
Cheers, Erik
* ugly ** ugly but we're used to it *** tedious and boring