> Use near-black and near-white instead of pure black and white
Please don't. Reducing contrast of text makes it harder to read. Even if you do it just a little bit, it still makes it a little bit harder to read. Worse, a lot of designers seem to get carried away with this and end up with gray-on-gray text that's impossible to read for anyone over the age of 30.
Plus it doesn't even look better. I guess this is subjective but I frequently open the devtools inspector to edit people's CSS to turn their near-black into black and their near-white into white, and every time I'm like "Wow, that looks so much better!"
Maybe I'm just a systems engineer with no sense of taste but I absolutely don't understand why anyone wants this.
Please don't. Reducing contrast of text makes it harder to read. Even if you do it just a little bit, it still makes it a little bit harder to read. Worse, a lot of designers seem to get carried away with this and end up with gray-on-gray text that's impossible to read for anyone over the age of 30.
Plus it doesn't even look better. I guess this is subjective but I frequently open the devtools inspector to edit people's CSS to turn their near-black into black and their near-white into white, and every time I'm like "Wow, that looks so much better!"
Maybe I'm just a systems engineer with no sense of taste but I absolutely don't understand why anyone wants this.