Hi Michael, On 10/09/2020 20:42, Michael wrote: > On 2020-09-10, at 9:25 AM, Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> wrote: > >> As someone with an eye injury, I really hate the matching trend for >> **washed out grey fonts** that lack contrast on a classic white screen >> (I have f.lux for a bit of night time dimming of the blue component). > As someone with mild dyslexia, that finds 24 point MS Comic Sans to be the > best font for reading: > I also hate this "grey on black" or "grey on grey" view from people who > assume that monitors must be at full brightness and then want to turn down > their text/backgrounds to compensate. > I hate the view of "Night hue means toss an amber/sepia/whatever filter over > everything", turning white into amber, and black into grey-amber, making > everything harder to read. > I hate this "We only have 4 CSS values set, and you must choose one of them, > they are sufficient to satisfy everyone because we say so and the ADA doesn't > apply to us because it was written before computers became common". > I hate this "We can decide that only these, "professional" (meaning someone > paid money to develop them) fonts count and your choice of font is a 'joke' > font that we don't include because no one needs it" attitude. > And I bleeping hate the whole "Turn your phone sideways? OK, we'll display > more information, you can't make your text bigger. Want to make your text > bigger? Now you have to scroll left/right because obviously wider coverage is > more important than bigger text". I hate the whole bleeping "We don't care > what font size you told the phone to use, we'll use some CSS font pixel count > specified by some other person". > > OK, end rant. But well spoken! > > Computers should be the best example of an accessible device. They can > trivially display bigger text. But all these "designers" that want to assume > that they know every pixel and every location of everything because they are > entitled to control everything about how your room display is set up ... this > should be illegal, and the ADA should expand to computers. (I'm guessing that the 'you' below is generally aimed at the broad industry that isn't as helpful as it could be, as we try to cope.. e.g. I'd mentioned f.lux) > You don't know my lighting. F.Lux is the biggest fail here. I don't care > about sunset, I have sunlight lamps. > You don't know my monitor. "White" is comfortable, and I need to use a custom > calibration. Hint: it's not a 2.4 gamma. It has a black level significantly > higher than zero, and "max" is room light. > You don't know my eyes. Significant eyeglass correction, and not 20/20 after > correction. > You don't know my age. I *used* to be a 22 year old programmer who used small > fonts. But no, I never was happy with those tiny tiny x-term windows, even > then I used bigger fonts. (Used to use 10-12 pixel in X on school monitors. > Now? 24 "point" on a 32 in 720p monitor, capital letters measure at 3/8th to > 1/2 inch, depending on program and if it's using pixels or point and scaling.) > > ( And I can't stand people that assume "This graph module was designed for > dark colors on a white background? OK, we'll add a dark mode by making the > background black, but leave the checkbox in the "white" position, so you have > to click it twice to turn off the black background". Graph colors stayed > dark. ) >
I decided to lookup / research the background to the Dark Theme stuff, and it looks like it was initially something for the small screen mobile phone market to reduce display power (longer battery life) and convenience at night. It wasn't specially for Home PC set ups with big monitors but appears to be being picked up by all the 'night-owls'. I did find the "Dark Reader"[1] and "Legibility" [2] add-ons for Firefox, and I'm tying them at the moment (can only enable one at a time). The Liberty one does seem helpful for the gray-text problem as it gets behind the style sheet and makes the fonts large enough and with sufficient contrast, with choosable setting. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/darkreader/ https://darkreader.org/help/en/ [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/text-legibility/ some of my research links (just in case) https://material.io/design/color/dark-theme.html#behavior https://www.wired.com/2016/10/how-the-web-became-unreadable/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/dark-mode/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/low-contrast/ All the best, Philip -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/6004cdfc-2e18-b884-6df3-05aa3d1e331a%40iee.email.
