Web Design: Grey Text on White Background. Solarize Color Disease
Starting around 2010, more and more websites use grey text on white background, making it hard to read.
Exhibition
![macOS software update 2017 12 12 21493](i/wob/macOS_software_update_2017-12-12_21493.png)
![racket web design grey on white](i/wob/racket_web_design_grey_on_white_2016-12-22.png)
![web design gray text on white](i/wob/web_design_gray_text_on_white_3_2012-08-16.png)
Orange on Gray!
![arstechnica screenshot 2012-03-09](i/wob/arstechnica_screenshot_2012-03-09.png)
Greyer and Greyer!
![web design gray on white 2013-06-11](i/wob/web_design_gray_on_white_2013-06-11.png)
![gray on white chrome devtools website 2015-08-05](i/wob/gray_on_white_chrome_devtools_website_2015-08-05.png)
![web design gray text on white openstudiolab 2015-08-15](i/wob/web_design_gray_text_on_white_openstudiolab_2015-08-15.png)
![web design gray on white projectured.org 2014-03-15](i/wob/web_design_gray_on_white__projectured.org_2014-03-15.png)
![web design gray text on white Joe Arms Erlang 2015-10-16](i/wob/web_design_gray_text_on_white_Joe_Arms_Erlang_2015-10-16.png)
The Solarize Disease
There's a website called Solarize, that focuses on desigining the most readable color theme. This is the disease that began the gray on white.
Witness:
![solarized text](i/wob/solarized_text.png)
Do you find the text easy to read?
Things get worse:
![solarized screen](i/wob/solarized_screen.png)
![solarized text 2](i/wob/solarized_text_2.png)
The Solarized color themes are low contrast, and supposedly works better when your computer display is under sunlight. Maybe so, but it looks terrible indoors.
see also: [contrast rebellion By Zoltán Gócza, Richard Gazdik. At http://contrastrebellion.com/ , accessed on 2013-01-22 ]
see also: How to Calibrate Display/Monitor Color .