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Comment by BenoitEssiambre | Hacker News Reader

Does anybody else hate those pale, faded out font colors? It does make the page look better when you are glancing at it not trying to read anything but it sure makes reading textual content (the actual point of blogs and most websites) much more difficult.

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I'm color blind and frequently turn off colors on webpages. Try this bookmarklet to remove the colors to get a standard black on white page while preserving (most) everything else.

javascript:(function(){var newSS, styles='* { background: white ! important; color: black !important } :link, :link * { color: #0000EE !important } :visited, :visited * { color: #551A8B !important }'; if(document.createStyleSheet) { document.createStyleSheet("javascript:'"+styles+"'"); } else { newSS=document.createElement('link'); newSS.rel='stylesheet'; newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles); document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS); } })();

Check out: http://www.readability.com/bookmarklets/

Here's how it looks: http://awesomescreenshot.com/02fd25oe4

Wow, those humongous margins are far worse than the low contrast. Is there a customizable equivalent around?

There is readable [1]. It gives you a bookmarklet with your personal preferences.

[1]: http://readable.tastefulwords.com/

Bookmarklet to turn on/off style sheets:

javascript:(function(){var%20s=document.styleSheets;for(var%20i%20in%20s){s[i].disabled=!!!s[i].disabled;}})();

Makes pretty much any page readable, but combine with noscript/adblock to keep the content from changing.

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