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[miss_tress]

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[netweight]

Someone on my flist once posted an entry so similar to this that for a moment there I wondered if this wasn't a meme. Which goes to show how fucking annoying and yet persistent this tendency is. It might not be a meme but man, it *should* be.

[miss_tress]

Spooky! *wonders how we go about starting it as a meme*

It's weird because the journal does look very pretty but it's impossible to read. I think part of it is comes from my 11 years of working in the graphic design field. Legibility was the number one rule we always went by.

[me_ya_ri]

Oh god yes! I perpetually have my journal set to "my style" explicitly because I can't stand the unreadable styles some people have. *shudders* I'm all about the reading and hate it when it's made harder than it should be.

[miss_tress]

My biggest peeve is any text combination that isn't dark text on light background. Because light text on dark background usually just looks fuzzy.

[roxymissrose]

Yes, yes, yes, very annoying, omg.

[miss_tress]

I didn't even mention that the text was very small. That I could live with; the color choices I could not.

[jlvsclrk]

It's not you - some of the more exotic layouts just turn me off completely. Black text on a white background may not be sexy, but folks need to understand that its so common for precisely one reason - it is the most readable format. If you can't abide a white background, then at the very least ensure you have high contrast.

[miss_tress]

3 cheers for black text on a white background!

[tariel22]

I have several people on my flist whose journals I can't read for that same reason. Teeny tiny print, and so light I can barely see it. I have to read their entries in my in box. It really makes me wonder, if I can't read their posts or the comments, how can they?

[miss_tress]

*nods* Exactly. Doesn't it annoy them when they have to answer their own comments?