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Varying the contrast/brightness should be part of the process of evaluating a pattern for a website. Many users won't have properly calibrated monitors.

Haw. I wish I had a Mac.

I'm on a 1Ghz Dell laptop from 5 years ago. So the screen is... less than stellar.

I also have $280 to my name in total :P

Windows 7 also has a screen calibration assistant, somewhere in control panel. IIRC it's not nearly as helpful, but if your screen's that bad you could probably improve it.

Heh. Thanks.

I'll try it, but I don't think the screen is physically capable of generating enough luminosity to provide any fine-tuned amount of contrast... :)

To be fair, my monitor IS calibrated and those two patterns are very dark here. I have to look quite closely to make out any detail.