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shadowkatDear blogger (fanfic writer) :
I am enjoying your story, but I am rapidly going blind reading it. For reasons I do not understand you have written it on a dark background, with light weirdly faded yellow text. Are you sadistic?? Or just oblivious?
I know you probably think it looks cool to put colored text on a dark background or white text on a dark background. But you are hurting your readers eyes!!! Granted there is no reason you should care about such a thing...Granted I could take the time to try and copy it all to my harddrive or print it off (don't have paper or time to do either) or just give up. But I happen to like your story.
So, please dear friend, if you care at all about your readers, no reason why you should except, uh wanting readers - kill the distracting background graphics behind your text. Put the text in dark letters - so it stands out, and the background in light. (ie - text black, background light yellow - NOT the opposite). You are hurting people's eyes, not to mention your own (did you wonder why you have eyestrain and may need those reading glasses faster than normal? At the rate you are going, you'll be getting a prescription at the ripe old age of 29) and possibly losing or turning off potential readers in the process. Text should always, ALWAYS, be dark against a light background. Preferably black text and a white or light as possible background. Think, do you want to spend hours reading faded yellow text against black background?
I mean honestly - you have worked hard on your story, why kill it with bad graphic design?
Sincerly,
One of your readers...
[Sigh. Would never post this to anyone's journal/blog of course, because I am of the firm belief that you should do whatever you damn well please in your own journal or blog. But I do wish...sigh. If wishes were horses, than beggers would ride.]
I am enjoying your story, but I am rapidly going blind reading it. For reasons I do not understand you have written it on a dark background, with light weirdly faded yellow text. Are you sadistic?? Or just oblivious?
I know you probably think it looks cool to put colored text on a dark background or white text on a dark background. But you are hurting your readers eyes!!! Granted there is no reason you should care about such a thing...Granted I could take the time to try and copy it all to my harddrive or print it off (don't have paper or time to do either) or just give up. But I happen to like your story.
So, please dear friend, if you care at all about your readers, no reason why you should except, uh wanting readers - kill the distracting background graphics behind your text. Put the text in dark letters - so it stands out, and the background in light. (ie - text black, background light yellow - NOT the opposite). You are hurting people's eyes, not to mention your own (did you wonder why you have eyestrain and may need those reading glasses faster than normal? At the rate you are going, you'll be getting a prescription at the ripe old age of 29) and possibly losing or turning off potential readers in the process. Text should always, ALWAYS, be dark against a light background. Preferably black text and a white or light as possible background. Think, do you want to spend hours reading faded yellow text against black background?
I mean honestly - you have worked hard on your story, why kill it with bad graphic design?
Sincerly,
One of your readers...
[Sigh. Would never post this to anyone's journal/blog of course, because I am of the firm belief that you should do whatever you damn well please in your own journal or blog. But I do wish...sigh. If wishes were horses, than beggers would ride.]
