On 2016-09-06 15:34, Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote: > On 06.09.16 18:08, Doug Barton wrote: >> On 09/04/2016 06:24 PM, Jim Wyman wrote: >>> Please STOP using gray text on the white background on your website. >>> (...) >> >> While I certainly agree with your sentiments, I'm not seeing grey text >> on the enigmail web site. Can you give some example URLs? > > The only page which I can think of in this context is the FAQ > http://enigmail.net/index.php/en/faq?view=category&id=11 where we have > grey on white text.
Heh. Haven't been reading this list for a while, just now looking at this... *Wow*, that page is terrible! The (effective) contrast is way, way too low. The text is also really ugly. The problem is hinting. The Enigmail pages are missing hinting, which makes text look sharp. This seems to be an artifact of the effective font (Deja Vu Sans ExtraLight), and stems from the use of a very low font-weight as specified by the CSS. See attached screen shots. In "ugly", the text is barely legible and the lack of hinting results in obvious artifacts. In "better", I have disabled the font-weight rule, resulting in text that is much more legible. Besides drastically reduces artifacts, I think another problem is that without hinting, the extremely light font weight results in almost never having a pixel "fully covered" by the glyph, which may be why the text is "gray" for the OP. (Certainly, it is making the contrast much, much worse on the FAQ page.) I don't think such a low font-weight should be applied to most of the text. It's tolerable on the larger text of headings (although the lack of hinting still makes them more ugly than necessary), but for small text, the low font weight also has the effect of lowering the contrast. -- Matthew
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