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Comment by noamsml | Hacker News Reader

Most of this seems silly. OSX is the only laptop OS? Since so many people buy PC laptops, that answer is clearly wrong more than 75% of the time (unless he wants newbies to try and hackintosh). Also, what's with the "no black on white" thing? Can someone explain that to me?

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"In order for legibility to be achieved, a certain degree of contrast must exist between the background and foreground colors. However, it’s important to remember that computer screens have much greater black/white contrast than the typical printed page. To that end, many web designers prefer off-black to pure black on white backgrounds. Likewise, it is sometimes more elegant to use very light gray instead of pure white on black backgrounds."

The above quote is take from "Elegant Web Typography" by Jeff Croft

http://www.slideshare.net/jeff_croft/elegant-web-typography-...

He gave his 75% answers. The readers of this article will have their own 75% answers, and if they don't, then his are just fine for the demographic. It's pretty smart really, and subtle.

They are not my answers, but that's very far from being the point. Well, actually, that IS the point!

Duh, I just repeated what jodrellblank said, more or less. Oops.

The idea behind "no black on white" is that the contrast on most monitors is high enough that using the darkest color for text and the brightest color for background ends up being uncomfortable to read. So, use black on off-white (like HN), gray on white (like the posted article), or some similar combination.

OSX is the only laptop OS?

No; If you want a laptop and don't know what OS to go for and don't have a strong preference already, pick OS X. Not "OS X is the only option".

If you already want Windows or want the cheapest and therefore picked Windows then you're not asking non-questions on the web and you're not the target of the blog post.

Can you really use hackintosh as a verb?

No, but you can hackintosh hackintosh as a hackintosh, if you hackintosh.

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