- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:57:49 -0700
- To: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Rudolph Gottesheim <r.gottesheim@loot.at>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com> wrote: > I'm curious to hear more about why gray is so popular from an artistic / designer perspective. > > Is it the "black and white" muted photo affect (in which case a filter might be better)? I have a few other guesses as well. "gray" is a wide term here. Anything between white and black is covered there, and those two colors are definitely quite common. I gave a use-case where near-white and near-black are often used for background and text to reduce the harshness of pure black-on-white contrast. Writing that out requires, currently, repeating yourself. There's a potential readability win for this case. ~TJ
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