If it's available on your platform, you could print it to a local file since the print version doesn't use the same CSS as the web (OS X = print to PDF, Win = print to XPS, etc).

Or, presuming you're on a modern browser and care that much about the content, you can just inspect the dom, find that <link type="text/css"...> in the head, and delete it.

If you're using Chrome, you can install Clearify[1] and read it with better readable CSS

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearly/iooicodkii...

I had the same opinion about the official sed page[1], until I noticed the footnote. It got my attention and I decided to learn. One of the best, portable, elegant tools I use every day.

[1] http://sed.sourceforge.net/

In Firefox:

View/Page Style/No Style

It also looks pretty good in the lynx browser, and probably other text browsers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29

It's weird, it didn't always look like that. I'd been recommending it for years while it was a very Spartan HTML page with no CSS or inter-page navigation. The horrid new look came early last year.

I use the Clearly browser plugin for pages like this. Works like a charm.

The site is so garish I actually love it for some reason.

Use Instapaper?