Author: paulsteven1516@gmail.com
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Grey Text on a White Background: The Contrast Trap
Light grey text on white is the signature look of minimalist design — and one of the most quietly hostile choices on the modern…
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Black Background, White Text: When and How to Use It
Black-background-white-text is a deliberate design register: dramatic, focused, premium. Used in the right places with the right values, it outperforms light themes — used…
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Black Text on a White Background: Why It Is Still the Standard
Every serious reading medium — books, newspapers, documents, most of the web — settled on dark text over a light background. That was not…
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White Text on a Dark Background: Design Guidelines
Dark interfaces are everywhere — but “white text on a dark background” done carelessly is one of the most common readability failures in modern…
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Why White Text on a Black Background Causes Double Vision
If white text on a black background looks doubled, ghosted or like it is glowing at the edges, you are not imagining it —…
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White Text on Black Background: Readability, Explained
White text on a black background is the highest-contrast pairing a screen can produce — a 21:1 ratio, the maximum WCAG can measure. So…