Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderEven worse (or probably related) than the general contrast problem is the absolutely crazy suggestion to use -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; in your CSS (http://maxvoltar.com/archive/-webkit-font-smoothing) I've yet to come across an instance where antialiased is better than using subpixel hinting. In addition, I think it's crazy that the browser would allow a site designer to alter such a highly OS- or even machine-specific setting. Heck - there's even special tuning wizards in most OSes to configure the…
It would be nice since they are advocating for readable text if the font sizes were appropriate on mobile. Even funnier is that lighthouse shows a multitude of accessibility problems in the page including.... low contrast. https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-contrastrebellion-c... Apparently the reason for the awful sizing on mobile is missing the responsive viewport meta tag... IDK, I agree with the content of the website but it's just mind-numbing that it has these issues.
Yeah, and this website does grotty hacks to figure out my browser tab size and scale--which makes me scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll on a 4K monitor. He's an brilliant idea: quit trying to turn the web from scrolling text into a damn slideshow. Thanks.
> When making the contrast of the text lower and lower... designers need to think of > elderly users with bad vision > low quality monitors > bad lighting and glare > reading on tiny screens And easily pissed off curmudgeons like myself. I immediately hit "No Styles" at the slightest visual irritation; low contrast is the most common. I'll do this many times in a day, with a satisfied, grumbled "harumph." I suppose that I, a mere reader/user, am…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 1008
- Total comments
- 411
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-07-26 | Webdesigners: please make text readableFirst breakout · Best thread | bmaeser | 467 | 106 |
| 2015-04-26 | Contrast Rebellion | kartikkumar | 99 | 70 |
| 2015-07-21 | Contrast Rebellion | avodonosov | 2 | 1 |
| 2017-01-26 | Contrast Rebellion – to hell with unreadable, low-contrast texts | apo | 1 | 0 |
| 2017-06-17 | The Contrast RebellionHall induction | jansho | 86 | 46 |
| 2021-02-06 | The Contrast Rebellion | smoyer | 3 | 5 |
| 2021-04-08 | Contrast Rebellion – to hell with unreadable, low-contrast texts | Tomte | 70 | 39 |
| 2023-05-07 | Low-contrast font color and unreadable texts? To hell with them!Latest 20+ point return | gjvc | 280 | 144 |