Light colored fonts

rutt · October 2, 2005

OK, chief curmudgeon, here. Think twice before using those light colored fonts, grey, white, and yellow. One dgrin option is to have white colored backgrounds (User Cp->Options, bottom of the page) I find white backgrounds a lot easier on the eyes. With this option set, the light colored fonts are very hard to see (impossible in the case of white).

Alternatives that work with all backgrounds are size, bold, underline, and those controversial emoticons.

ginger_55 · October 3, 2005

Rutt, maybe I am really dense here, but I like a black background, have a black background. I can understand that white would not show up on white, but what does my font color have to do with your background. In other words, when would my font color affect me with your background.

We are both using white fonts here. I cannot see grey at all on black, have to highlight it.

ginger (I may be slow here) and there.......

rutt · October 3, 2005

ginger_55 wrote:

Rutt, maybe I am really dense here, but I like a black background, have a black background. I can understand that white would not show up on white, but what does my font color have to do with your background. In other words, when would my font color affect me with your background.

We are both using white fonts here. I cannot see grey at all on black, have to highlight it.

ginger (I may be slow here) and there.......

It only matters when you expliclty select a different color for a font. If you don't try to do anything fancy, nothing bad happens.

gluwater · October 4, 2005

You might also want to point out that changing your type to black is very hard to read on the default color set. I have noticed a couple people doing that lately.

Light colored fonts

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