Grey Text on White

[Jason76]

It looks beautiful to look at - but it's tough to read on a white background! However, though, a "too dark" text on a white background looks bad also. Anyway, who has had this struggle?

OK, well for the big titles of threads, I don't mind grey, in fact, prefer it. But for the text I want light-black - but often the font controlling the text also controls the other!

 

[Alexandoy]

I wonder what you mean by "light black" because black is black and when you want a lighter shade then that will be grey. Oh well, it's the terminology and it is confusing when I see a new kind of color. In the word processor it is always plain white and plain black for the background and text respectively. I think that is the standard although with the web page it is not good to use that standard combination for it will look very plain. You need to inject some color.

 

[Jason76]

I wonder what you mean by "light black" because black is black and when you want a lighter shade then that will be grey. Oh well, it's the terminology and it is confusing when I see a new kind of color. In the word processor it is always plain white and plain black for the background and text respectively. I think that is the standard although with the web page it is not good to use that standard combination for it will look very plain. You need to inject some color.

No, there are colors between black and grey. What I mean is the RGB etc. values are between black and grey - and also look so.

 

[fantanoice]

Black and white are both specific hues and in RGB, they're 000000 and FFFFFF respectively. Anything in between is grey.

 

[Ewastedelhi]

Gray is the only color that has no hue or saturation, only brightness. The more brightness it has the lighter the gray. Brightness is calibrated on a percent scale. Applying the ratio to gray text on a white background means that the text should not exceed 46% brightness (#767676).