Let’s Talk About Font Legibility: Shapes, Kerning, and Colours.
I started writing a reply to the well-thought-out — though IMHO slightly misinformed — article by Rodrigo S-C about “White Text on Black Makes Me Want to Gouge My Eyes Out” when I realized that length-wise it was nearly an article… so let's make this an article.
And for you illiterate TLDR “Aah, wall of text” twitter generation nose-breathers, just skip to the list at the end for the highlights.
It’s Not About Me, It’s Not About You!
Maybe misinformed isn’t the right word. It’s just his examples feel card stacked due to the font choice and presentation. The biggest issue in said article is the attitude of “me me me”. Just because HE has problems with white on black doesn’t mean everyone else does. He has these examples:
The problem is that for me, the extremes of black and white are far more legible than the use of grey. In particular the grey on black is illegible junk. Because the low contrast blurs it together. That’s the very thing they’re accusing the higher contrast of doing. This is because I just got a new pair of glasses and if I swap back to my old pair, it’s…
