[HN Gopher] Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
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       Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
        
       Author : tontonius
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2023-02-06 21:36 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | rayrag wrote:
       | I recently started following author of this article on Twitter,
       | he shares a lot of tips/tricks/insights about UI, visual design,
       | etc. Highly recommended. And you will more articles like this on
       | his website. He should add navigation to article pages, though.
       | 
       | https://anthonyhobday.com/sideprojects/
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       | https://anthonyhobday.com/sideprojects/visualtechniques/
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       | https://twitter.com/hobdaydesign
        
       | milliams wrote:
       | A good reason to break "Use near-black and near-white instead of
       | pure black and white" for blacks is if the design will be viewed
       | either on a projector, or with an an OLED screen as both will
       | display pure blacks quite pleasingly.
        
         | eikenberry wrote:
         | I thought the no-pure white/black was due to human visual
         | perception. That neither occurs in nature and they seem
         | fake/artificial to the viewer. Nothing about how good it looks
         | on the medium.
        
       | kentonv wrote:
       | > 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 hard 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.
        
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