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IME light-gray on white actually tends to be more readable on PCs than Macs due to the still-rather-different default gamma setup/color profiles. Cheaper PC screens especially often default to darker, bluer shifts.

I normally hate comments that simply criticize something not related to the content of the article, but in this case I found the lack of contrast made the article basically unreadable (on a MBP, using either the internal screen or a nice external display).

I'm on a pretty nice mac, and it is basically unreadable without either zooming a lot or using some css switcher.

Readability link: http://www.readability.com/articles/3eiyua1p

I agree. You should take this up with the Github page folks, specifically https://github.com/orderedlist. It's his template.

Thanks for changing this. You didn't have to, but it really helps, and I'm looking forward to really giving it the close read it deserves tomorrow.