Black.
It is insanely hard to make a legible web site in black.
Black is really the ideal background color for online reading. When you’re reading this, you’re probably staring into an incredibly advanced lightbulb right now. Black means less light, and less strain on your eyes.
But black’s also best unanimously. When you flip between white pages, you don’t notice it. When you flip from a white page to a black page, you don’t notice it as much, but when you flip from a black page to a white page, you’re probably a bit blinded. That’s why I’ve avoided black for so long - because it’s insanely hard to make a legible web site in black.
Coming soon: a switcher that lets you flip between black and a rejiggered version of the previous white/blue theme. Coming now: live search, right on top of this page, semi-sensible navigation and a host of halfway decent tag lines, brought to you one by one, randomly. And muted white text on top of a black background, for the first time in Waffle history.
What do you think?
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By bob · 2005.11.30 19:00
Your Atom feed has HTML-tags in it! The black gives the text to much contrast, black is for pictures! :\
By strawman · 2005.12.01 15:32
I was trying to implement a note for entries that are about the site itself in the feed, and it didn’t go quite so well, so I reverted to the way it used to be. Maybe later.
I don’t agree that black gives too much contrast - technically, the contrast is less now (light grey on black compared to the old black on white). However, I can agree that it’s more striking, which is why I said that I’d begin offering a variation of the previous white theme as soon as I can get that done.
This stuff is very much up to personal taste. I don’t regard this as better than the previous layout, but I also don’t regard it as worse. (Anyone that wants to can style this site however they’d like thanks to a site-specific ID (Waffle’s is
waffle-wootest-net) and the setting in most modern browsers to apply a user stylesheet.)By Jesper · 2005.12.01 16:21