My buddy swore dark text on black backgrounds was fine for his band's website

My friend Dave runs a local metal band and asked me to look over their new site last week. He said the color scheme was killer because it looked like a concert flyer from the 90s. I told him the dark grey text on a nearly black background was gonna be a nightmare to read. He laughed and said his fans have good eyes so it wouldn't matter. I pulled up a contrast checker on my phone and the ratio was like 1.5 to 1, which is basically invisible. He finally tried reading a paragraph from arm's length and gave up after two lines. Now he's letting me pick the colors and I'm going with a cream background and deep red text. Anyone else have a friend who thinks style matters more than being able to actually see the words?

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diana_bell744d ago

Oh, you're describing my brother to a T. He designed his fishing club's newsletter with yellow text on a white background because it matched their logo, and I couldn't read a single word. I finally printed it out in black ink and handed it back to him. Some people just don't get that if you can't see it, the design doesn't matter one bit.

noraj794d ago

Prove them wrong by printing his next design in invisible ink too.