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M & M Upholstery – A Good Example of Bad Contrast for Wednesday, July 14, 2010
July 13th, 2010 10:10 pm by Vincent Flanders
Submitter’s comments: I was wondering if you might consider listing M&M Upholstery on your Daily Sucker page.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: Absolutely. It commits the most grievous of web design sins — lack of contrast between the text and the background color. The small text size adds to the problem.
I ran the home page through AccessColor and they reported the following:
Either color difference or color brightness does not meet the recommended standard for 88% of the total the text.
I wrote about this problem in Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015 under the topic “Contrast, dammit.”
According to Wikipedia: “Contrast is the difference in visual properties that makes an object (or its representation in an image) distinguishable from other objects and the background.” According to Vincent Flanders: “Without proper contrast, visitors to your site can’t read the text and if they can’t read it, they will leave it.” Here’s a web site that gives a really great explanation of the need for contrast — and it’s visual.
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