alt Hacker NewsDesign is illegible. Needs more contrast between text and background. I'm not even vision impaired and I was squinting immediately.
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The whole brand identity is “late”, as in late night, as in all the lights are off and I don’t want my screen to blind me. I feel like this is a perfectly appropriate sort of theme, but maybe that’s just my inner 20-year old impugning my inner 70-year old?
So much modern GUI design is really poor for those a bit older where contrast is important.
The accessibility checker in Chrome/Firefox devtools would immediately flag this.
Vibe coded slop has the same patterns of black-on-black and grey-on-grey illegible text. Mix that with piss poor monospace, small-size fonts and you have to squint to read each letter
I'm, by contrast, an able bodied person with functioning eyes and had no issues.
Even 15 years ago this was such a big problem that someone tried to start a rebellion: https://contrastrebellion.com/