On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 09:02:10AM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
I guess it could be:
- our eyes trained differently
- our eyes function differently--I have astigmatism, but it is corrected by
my glasses so I don't think that is a factor
- different tools on our computers render the fonts differently? (I'm not
sure I know what, in the end, actually renders the fonts on my computer--is it X (assuming my Wheezy installation is using X), or is it different for different apps?
X is only used for font rendering in old applications like xterm. Modern applications on GNU operating systems use HarfBuzz.
If yours is a technical issue, it is either your screen settings (brightness/contrast), font settings (like antialiasing, subpixel rendering) or really a bug in font rendering. That said, I set my desktop to use larger than default fonts so I don’t have issues.
I believe websites should use either default colors or custom colored dark on light text like most websites. Those who don’t like it can override the stylesheet colors like they have to do for most websites, i.e.
https://superuser.com/questions/318912/how-to-override-the-css-of-a-site-in-...