Grey Text

[dgadee]

A yachting publication arrived today which I find nearly impossible to read - grey text on shiny paper. Other sailing publications appear to like this format, too. Often in smallish typeface.

Please! Stop it!

Sailors are getting older and we don't all have the eyesight we had in our youth. In fact sailing for decades without using sunglasses can have caused our difficulties.

PBO and Yachting Monthly are easy to read. Why not follow their model?

 

[seeSimon]

A yachting publication arrived today which I find nearly impossible to read - grey text on shiny paper. Other sailing publications appear to like this format, too. Often in smallish typeface.

Please! Stop it!

Sailors are getting older and we don't all have the eyesight we had in our youth. In fact sailing for decades without using sunglasses can have caused our difficulties.

PBO and Yachting Monthly are easy to read. Why not follow their model?

Are you ...Sailing Today? Me too!

 

[Sandydog2]

Or get it out of the library online and then you can have the text any size you want - and it’s free.

 

[dgadee]

Nah. Different publication entirely.

I get it in the post every so often and only realised I never read it and why after the rigging book was bought (see book club). Formatted by a young trendy? Not an oldie with failing eyes, certainly.

 

[Halo]

When I was in business some customers printed their terms and conditions in light grey 8 point type on the back of orders. Those were the ones to read extra carefully and were often full of elephant traps

 

[Poignard]

When I was in business some customers printed their terms and conditions in light grey 8 point type on the back of orders. Those were the ones to read extra carefully and were often full of elephant traps

"A collection of phrases, fortuitously culled"

 

[WoodyP]

To make it even more difficult printed over the top of a photograph.

 

[wonkywinch]

I sometimes have problems with this forum

 

[Ray Purchase]

Light blue text does it for me..

 

[mjcoon]

Of course you could buy one of those incredibly over-engineered lamps (IIRC the adverts do not disclose the technology or wattage) for enough money to be fully magical...

 

[dgadee]

Of course you could buy one of those incredibly over-engineered lamps (IIRC the adverts do not disclose the technology or wattage) for enough money to be fully magical...

I work on the assumption that the more money spent on advertising, the less useful is the object.

We have had several hundred years of considered typesetting practice. Pity layout designers haven't noticed.

 

[Stemar]

I work on the assumption that the more money spent on advertising, the less useful is the object.

We have had several hundred years of considered typesetting practice. Pity layout designers haven't noticed.

Big +1 to both.

As for the latter, as with almost all design, if the function is right, the form will also be right.