Why do people like to use themes that make their blogs very difficult to read? I’m taking about light blue on blue, light grey on grey/white, dark grey on black? And on top of that, they shrink the font size to 4 or 5?
I woke up to just that today. One of my favorite blogs that I visit twice a day, a US-based Dow Jones analyst, decided to go from a very readable black on white theme with font size 10 to a dark grey on black theme with font size 5. I had to cut and paste the text to notepad to make out what he’s writing.
Ok so he’s trying to chase everybody off and judging from his hits counter, its working. But then, why bother pinging his blog which he’s still doing? Why not just change domains, stop writing or shut down if losing his readers is what he really wants to do?
I just don’t understand some people.
If you’re using Firefox of IE7, you can increase the font size by pressing Ctrl and +. You can also reduce the font size by pressing Ctrl and -.
Hope this tip helps
Ei, your font also quite small ok…
Anyway, why are you so upset? PMS arr?
Hi Azmeen, yes I’ve been doing that but it doesn’t help when the characters are dark grey on a black background.
Hi Angel, PMS? Oh u mean party man syndrome? LOLz.. Nope not upset, just wondering why ppl do the things they do.
Black background make the pictures stand out… that’s my opinion… that’s why i love(d) black background, until some of my senior blog friends pointed out to me that they hv trouble reading… u r young man wor… also got ‘eyesight’ problem?
You don’t have that kind of PMS, me thinks…
Yeah I’m wearing thick reading glasses…
Gotcha! LOL there’s nothing with my eyesight. Just sensitive about color balance, the curse of photographers everywhere.
Hello Bryan,s tumbled here from angeles’ blogroll
I wondered about the very same thing too.. if the authors wants to attract readers, they should improve readibility instead of selecting the themes with the favourite dark colour backgrounds with small font size that looks cute to them. It’s the basic requirement for any good websites/blogs anyway. And I just wish the themes’ authors would just set the default font size to a reasonable ones, then we won’t suffer from this problem while blog hopping
The curse of photographers? You’re a photographer eh? Then maybe I can get a pointer or two from you since I want to learn to take better photos?