Comment by xtiansimon

Writing system.. There’s over 1000 kanji for grade school and over 2000 in common use.

How many times have you heard English speakers complain about type experiments with dark backgrounds or gray type?

The difference is readability versus legibility. Bad color choices can made type difficult to read, or can make something impossible to read.

And with Japanese there is a great diversity of significant marks in various signs which must be legible in order for a reader to understand the message.

I would expect Japanese sites to have a design sensibility that separates text and image/illustrations to a greater extent then designs using an alphabet of 26