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Comment by lacampbell | Hacker News Reader

The grey text on white is unreadable. Which is a shame as I genuinely wanted to read it.

As a young designer I redesigned a major news site with a lighter gray text on white.

I looked great to me - perfect and very readable. But I didn't consider the older eye, or other eyes, which don't let in as much light.

Hopefully the author will learn and adjust. Contrast is good.

Not just eyes, shit computer and phone screens. The worst screens have half the colors and a quarter the brightness (and relative contrast) of the best.

Yup.

A lesson for the designers among us: almost no-one is viewing your site on your 5k iMac screen. Design accordingly

I'm actually having trouble with the contrast as well.

But I don't think the colours them selves are absolutely unusable together, I think the combination of the colours and the font weight/size is really the issue (although that could be less the case on a retina screen).

It also doesn't help that I'm viewing it on a older monitor with poor colour control (particularly with contrast).

Light grey on white is readable on my work macbook pro, but unreadable on my old x201. It really depends on the display.

All of the content is also in the github readme: https://github.com/sl4m/gnu_smalltalk_koans

The "Reader View" available in at least Firefox and Safari fixed this for me.

Reader view is such an invaluable feature for me.

The icon sometimes doesn't appear in the address bar though (apparently because Firefox is unable to identify where the text content is in the page.)

I've also found the extension - Open in Reader View [1] to be useful for those situations.

[1] http://firefox.add0n.com/reader-view.html - Firefox, Chrome and Opera

High Contrast is another option for chrome that changes only the text and/or background colors.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/high-contrast/djcf...

If only there were any technology available to you, a software developer, that could render that text in a different color. Alas, your genuine desire to read it must go unfulfilled.

There is so much written in 2017, the least the author can do is make it readable if they actually want people to read it.

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