{"id":2764,"date":"2006-09-25T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/25\/white-text-on-black-backgrounds-is-bad-design\/"},"modified":"2006-09-25T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T20:31:00","slug":"white-text-on-black-backgrounds-is-bad-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2764","title":{"rendered":"White Text On Black Backgrounds Is Bad Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/persephonesboxblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/attention-all-brilliant-white-on-black.html\">Persephone&#8217;s Box<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You have a fancy-pants blog with white writing, or sometimes red or blue on a black background. And you write brilliantly, poignantly even, and have many ideas I&#8217;d like to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>This is your notification that I can&#8217;t read your blog.<\/p>\n<p>My eyes are weak, I&#8217;m night blind, and for some reason I really can&#8217;t see white on a black background.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blue already linked to this, but I wanted to echo it, because I can&#8217;t read light text on dark backgrounds either.<\/p>\n<p>For other folks who have this same problem, you can instantly change any blog&#8217;s colors to black text on white screen by using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/bookmarklets\/zap.html\">&#8220;zap colors&#8221; bookmarklet<\/a> in Firefox or IE, or using control-G in Opera. But in my opinion, dark text on a light-colored background is better design than forcing weak-eyed readers like me to install a color zapper.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: See also <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/firefox\/1224\/\">this Firefox plug-in<\/a>, which disables not only colors but virtually all formatting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persephone&#8217;s Box writes: You have a fancy-pants blog with white writing, or sometimes red or blue on a black background. And you write brilliantly, poignantly even, and have many ideas I&#8217;d like to discuss. This is your notification that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2764\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}