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Amazon's Thin Helvetica Syndrome: Font Anorexia vs. Kindle Readability (teleread.com)
David Rothman writes: The Thin Helvetica Syndrome arises from the latest Kindle upgrade and has made e-books less readable for some. In the past, e-book-lovers who needed more perceived-contrast between text and background could find at least partial relief in Helvetica because the font was heavy by Kindle standards. But now some users complain that the 5.7.2 upgrade actually made Helvetica thinner. Of course, the real cure would be an all-text bold option for people who need it, or even a way to adjust font weight, a feature of Kobo devices. But Amazon stubbornly keeps ignoring user pleas even though the cost of adding either feature would be minimal. Isn't this supposed to be a customer-centric company?
Since when is a large corporation customer-centric? It's stockholder-centric, silly!
You simply need to pick a different route. Epubee and FBReader do the job for me. Even better, I actually have an unencrypted copy of the epub, just in case there is some sort of "licensing" issue.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Open source, and works just great for me.
Join the fight!
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The current trend? I remember ten-ish years ago, way too many web sites were setting body text to 85% text size, 85% gray. And some would put that over a 15% gray background. Fuck that shit.
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My kingdom for mod points.
Seriously, everybody go look at this website, now linkified for your convenience.
http://contrastrebellion.com
It's concise; it won't take much of your time. And if you're too cool to cope with high-contrast text, well, feel free to smear some Vaseline on your horn-rimmed glasses before following the link.
Colour blindness in one form or another is affecting most of the population.
If by "most of the population", you mean 4.5% of the population, then yes, but I don't think many people will agree with your definition of "most."