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Howdy,

well, I did not get far. Typography is a thing. And me having problems with my eye sight ... well

• black letters (good!) on midgrey background ? (no, not good)
• P a G e S --- composed of several Glyphs not in the same "cut"? not so good. This also is not good for screen readers, because of the spaces, which dissolve the "word" into separate characters.
• the text is at least displayed to me with a serif Font. I tend to prefer those, so good.
• sidebar: white letters on dark grey, readable ok; black letters on that same dark grey, well no, not good.

While you are at it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_Hyperlegible

Now, if your readers are all young with splendid eye sight, they won't even notice.

I feel a bit bad, because I know that putting together text is a lot of work. And maybe I should configure my web-browser harshly to use only a small list of fonts at all.

Have something to drink, like tea or lemonade, depending on your ambient temperature, it's on me!

Cheers!

Edit: I'm also one of those strange old blokes, who travel the interwebs with JavaScript turned OFF unless really needed.

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~turboblack wrote:

you can't please everyone, I tried.

black on gray? like here.

the font can be made bigger in the browser using ctrl+

javascript - only needed by those who use the autotranslator, it is there. if you read in English, then go without javascript, it does not have a special effect on anything.

thank you very much for the general description