Can we increase HN's color contrast?

Question

Currently any Ask/Tell HN stories are very hard to read for me, since it's gray text on yellow-ish background. Most UI on HN has a color contrast of 3.54 (Foreground: #828282, Background: #f6f6ef) and it's super uncomfortable.I know I can increase the zoom or write a chrome extension to change it, but I think increasing HN's color contrast overall could help lots of readers.

krapp · Accepted Answer

>Currently any Ask/Tell HN stories are very hard to read for me, since it's gray text on yellow-ish background. Most UI on HN has a color contrast of 3.54 (Foreground: #828282, Background: #f6f6ef) and it's super uncomfortable.
That's one of many passive aggressive bits of operant conditioning pg originally added for quality control - meant to punish text-based posts by making them more difficult to read the longer they are. This is to discourage people from using text-based posts as an ad-hoc blogging platform, and make them as short as possible.
So no, that probably isn't ever going to happen.

daly · Answer

While you're at it, increase the information density.
Remove or modify the redundant line about flag/hide/fav... etc. Put it on a right click, put it as a mouse-over or as a button. Don't use half the screen.
It is better design to eliminate redundant non-content.

sqwrell · Answer

try this https://lipu-flax.vercel.app/#!/new

Can we increase HN's color contrast?

While you're at it, increase the information density.Remove or modify the redundant line about flag/hide/fav... etc. Put it on a right click, put it as a mouse-over or as a button. Don't use half the screen.It is better design to eliminate redundant non-content.

try this https://lipu-flax.vercel.app/#!/new

While you're at it, increase the information density.
Remove or modify the redundant line about flag/hide/fav... etc. Put it on a right click, put it as a mouse-over or as a button. Don't use half the screen.
It is better design to eliminate redundant non-content.