Please don't. Strong contrast helps readability; grey-on-color is lower contrast than white-on-color.
Most HN threads linking to a site that has light-grey-on-dark-grey or dark-grey-on-light-grey text have at least one (off-topic) complaint about site style. Let's not make HN one of those sites.
For me strong contrasts, especially on dark backgrounds, give me retina burns and eyestrain. I find pastel shades more comfortable. That said the grey text on white fad that happened a few years ago was a very silly idea.
I guess everyone's mileages vary depending on their eyesight, my eye's are 53 years old now and aren't as spritely as they used to be.
I agree, that level of white usually gives me eye strain after several minutes, even in a well lit room. The readability mode of Firefox for example uses #eeeeee for the text and #333333 for the background [1], I'd suggest using the same tones which are still very high contrast but don't cause nearly as much strain.
Please don't. Strong contrast helps readability; grey-on-color is lower contrast than white-on-color.
Most HN threads linking to a site that has light-grey-on-dark-grey or dark-grey-on-light-grey text have at least one (off-topic) complaint about site style. Let's not make HN one of those sites.
For me strong contrasts, especially on dark backgrounds, give me retina burns and eyestrain. I find pastel shades more comfortable. That said the grey text on white fad that happened a few years ago was a very silly idea.
I guess everyone's mileages vary depending on their eyesight, my eye's are 53 years old now and aren't as spritely as they used to be.
It's all about your monitor settings. High contrast monitor - you prefer low contrast style. Low contrast monitor - you prefer high contrast style.
This is something I don't like about VS Code. by being low contrast it means I have to turn up monitor contrast meaning everything else burns.
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There's plenty of space between #000 on #fff to provide an on style with high contrast.
https://contrastrebellion.com/
> grey-on-color is lower contrast than white-on-color.
> Let's not make HN one of those sites.
The OP of the thread you are replying to is #828282 on top of #f6f6ef. That is lower contrast than black on white.
I was responding to the comment I directly replied to, not commenting on the specific color scheme of the style.
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I agree, that level of white usually gives me eye strain after several minutes, even in a well lit room. The readability mode of Firefox for example uses #eeeeee for the text and #333333 for the background [1], I'd suggest using the same tones which are still very high contrast but don't cause nearly as much strain.
[1]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/10/firefox_68_arrives_...
Tricky balance there. I was going for good contrast even when screen is dimmed or color shifted (think night modes, f.lux, etc.
Maybe try to swap the #fafafa rule with #eaeaea? Does that feel better? It's still very high contrast so maybe that could be a happy medium.