[Arm-netbook] Alt Webpage & Logo Combo

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 09:02:10AM -0500, rhkramer at gmail.com wrote:
> I guess it could be:
>    * our eyes trained differently
>    * our eyes function differently--I have astigmatism, but it is corrected by 
> my glasses so I don't think that is a factor
>    * different tools on our computers render the fonts differently?  (I'm not 
> sure I know what, in the end, actually renders the fonts on my computer--is it 
> X (assuming my Wheezy installation is using X), or is it different for different 
> apps?
> 

X is only used for font rendering in old applications like xterm.
Modern applications on GNU operating systems use HarfBuzz.

If yours is a technical issue, it is either your screen settings
(brightness/contrast), font settings (like antialiasing, subpixel
rendering) or really a bug in font rendering.  That said, I set my
desktop to use larger than default fonts so I don’t have issues.

I believe websites should use either default colors or custom colored
dark on light text like most websites.  Those who don’t like it can
override the stylesheet colors like they have to do for most websites,
i.e.

https://superuser.com/questions/318912/how-to-override-the-css-of-a-site-in-firefox-with-usercontent-css