Good point Ken.<br><br>If Google does it, then it must be the right way! *chuckle*<br><br>Seriously, a valid point and taken. I think it will lose some of the feel, but since we are designing by committee here, I'll conceed this point.
<br><br>Trae<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ken Rickard</b> <<a href="mailto:agentrickard@gmail.com">agentrickard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div>Oops. Forgot to edit the subject line. Mea culpa.<br><br>>> default body text should be _black_ #000000<br><br>vs.</div></div><div><span class="q"><div><span><br><br>>Main text color should stay as it is, otherwise it'll lose the affect.
<br><br></span></div></span></div><div>Trae,<br><br>I'm going to really press on this one. What effect? <br>
<br>Readability trumps other interface concerns. That's why Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, (and <a href="http://drupal.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Drupal.org</a>, and <a href="http://buytaert.net/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Buytaert.net</a>) all use black-on-white.<br><br>Even Web
2.0 poster-children like Flickr use black-on-white for primary text.<br><br>The
purpose of body text is to be easy and simple to read. For most
people, pure black on pure white is the best contrast, the most common,
and the easiest.
<br><br>I've had this fight internally at my company as well, as our
designers went through a strong "Let's do everything in 6 shades of
gray" phase.<br><br>Any design that deviates from black-on-white can never get a 5 from me.
<br><br>- Ken Rickard<br>agentrickard<br><br>And for the record, my personal page:<br><a href="http://ken.therickards.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://ken.therickards.com/
</a><br><br>Where 'gray' means 'of lesser importance' than the content you want to read.
<br><br>
</div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br> Trae McCombs || <a href="http://occy.net/">http://occy.net/</a><br> Founder - <a href="http://Themes.org">Themes.org</a> // <a href="http://Linux.com">Linux.com
</a><br> CivicSpaceLabs - <a href="http://civicspacelabs.com/">http://civicspacelabs.com/</a>