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How the Web Became Unreadable (kevinmarks.com)
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[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s a widespread movement in design circles to reduce the contrast between text and background

This was the trend circa 2012 too, at least I recall Microsoft's pages and software becoming less legible. Not sure if I got used to it, screens got better, or it went back to higher contrast.

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

I always saw it as a pendulum swing in retaliation to the neon naughties and Web 2.0 web design trends.