Good point Ken. If Google does it, then it must be the right way! *chuckle* 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. Trae On 8/31/06, Ken Rickard <agentrickard@gmail.com> wrote:
Oops. Forgot to edit the subject line. Mea culpa.
default body text should be _black_ #000000
vs.
Main text color should stay as it is, otherwise it'll lose the affect.
Trae,
I'm going to really press on this one. What effect?
Readability trumps other interface concerns. That's why Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, (and Drupal.org <http://drupal.org/>, and Buytaert.net<http://buytaert.net/>) all use black-on-white.
Even Web 2.0 poster-children like Flickr use black-on-white for primary text.
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.
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.
Any design that deviates from black-on-white can never get a 5 from me.
- Ken Rickard agentrickard
And for the record, my personal page: http://ken.therickards.com/
Where 'gray' means 'of lesser importance' than the content you want to read.
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