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Another gray font on gray background website. I think I'll just give up and order a new monitor. I can't read all these new fancy websites. I get it that developers have usually good monitors, but is it really necessary to use a light gray on a gray background?

Edit: Hold your downvotes, I'm talking about the website. Not the blog! The website does have some hard to read gray-on-gray.

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I was curious about this.

The grey on white has a ratio[1] of 8.6:1 which should be perfectly fine.

The footer, light blue on dark blue, has a ratio of 3.8:1 which fails WCAG.

I can read both fairly easily. Contrast ratio maybe not a good measure?

[1]: http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

Thanks for the link and research. Some of the text is #acb2b6 which is really difficult for me to read. It's not like this website is particularly bad. I've hold back on commenting before but I guess I just felt like ranting today.

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