Text too light
Menno Hershberger
everywhere I go the text on webpages is more like grey than black and makes
it hard to read. If there's a considerable amount of it, I usually cut and
paste it into notepad where I can read it fine. Text is a little bit darker
in IE but still not as dark as I'd like. Increasing the size helps but it
still doesn't make it any darker. My general display properties under
appearance/effects have font set as clear type which helps a little but not
enough. Is there any setting in Firefox to make black black instead of
grey?
I do not have that problem with my own pages since I use bold type in all
of them.
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David McRitchie
Tools -> Options (/preferences) -> Content -> Colors -> choose colors
You would normally have the following checkmarked, and it applies to
both the left (Text and Background), and to the right (Link Colors).
[x] Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above.
If that is not the problem, then I would expect that you have a theme
installed other than default. Tools -> Addons -> Themes
Also show up in View -> Page Style -> (radio button) Basic | Default | (theme)
Or a Style involved either that you added to userChrome.css or that
you invoked and control with the "Stylish" extension. Either way it is
unlikely that you would invoke and not know about it. With Stylish,
may also show up in View -> Page Style -> ... normally "Basic" for theme,
but with Stylish may have other items checkmarked as well.
You say it affects IE but only slightly, IE would also have similar controls,
but does it affect non browser applications.
Dave Royal
> I'm up to version 3.6.6 now but I don't think version is an issue. Most
> everywhere I go the text on webpages is more like grey than black and makes
> it hard to read. If there's a considerable amount of it, I usually cut and
> paste it into notepad where I can read it fine. Text is a little bit darker
> in IE but still not as dark as I'd like. Increasing the size helps but it
> still doesn't make it any darker. My general display properties under
> appearance/effects have font set as clear type which helps a little but not
> enough. Is there any setting in Firefox to make black black instead of
> grey?
You might find the zap bookmarklet from here useful in some cases,
particularly where the contrast with the background is poor
https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html
Dave
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Menno Hershberger
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> "Menno Hershberger" ...
>> I'm up to version 3.6.6 now but I don't think version is an issue.
>> Most everywhere I go the text on webpages is more like grey than
>> black and makes it hard to read. If there's a considerable amount of
>> it, I usually cut and paste it into notepad where I can read it fine.
>> Text is a little bit darker in IE but still not as dark as I'd like.
>> Increasing the size helps but it still doesn't make it any darker. My
>> general display properties under appearance/effects have font set as
>> clear type which helps a little but not enough. Is there any setting
>> in Firefox to make black black instead of grey?
>>
>> I do not have that problem with my own pages since I use bold type in
>> all of them.
>
> Tools -> Options (/preferences) -> Content -> Colors -> choose colors
> You would normally have the following checkmarked, and it applies to
> both the left (Text and Background), and to the right (Link Colors).
> [x] Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections
> above.
That is checked.
> If that is not the problem, then I would expect that you have a theme
> installed other than default. Tools -> Addons -> Themes
> Also show up in View -> Page Style -> (radio button) Basic | Default |
> (theme)
Default is the only one even listed.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Menno Hershberger
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I installed it and it is in my bookmarks toolbar. But clicking on it when I
get to one of those hard to read pages does nothing. Maybe I just don't
know how to use it.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Beauregard T. Shagnasty
> I'm up to version 3.6.6 now but I don't think version is an issue.
> Most everywhere I go the text on webpages is more like grey than
> black and makes it hard to read. If there's a considerable amount of
> it, I usually cut and paste it into notepad where I can read it fine.
> Text is a little bit darker in IE but still not as dark as I'd like.
> Increasing the size helps but it still doesn't make it any darker. My
> general display properties under appearance/effects have font set as
> clear type which helps a little but not enough. Is there any setting
> in Firefox to make black black instead of grey?
Since you say it is similarly "more-like-grey" in IE as well, and
considering your comments in other replies, it makes me think it is your
Windows desktop 'theme' instead of anything to do with your browsers.
Install the Mozilla PrefBar, where you will find a checkbox to toggle
off all page colors with a simple click. Use as appropriate.
http://prefbar.mozdev.org/
> I do not have that problem with my own pages since I use bold type in
> all of them.
..thus likely irritating quite a many of your visitors. Bold, oversized
text is as hard to read as grey text. Do you have a vision problem of
your own?
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Menno Hershberger
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Cadillacs... :-) But I still have a driver's license!
Seriously though, I can read fine print on medicine labels and things like
that. It *does* seem like they keep making the print smaller every year
though.