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Comment by alblue | Hacker News Reader

Looks like a good idea; pity the fonts and colouring of the page make it unreadable.

Unreadable? It's a high contrast, large letter, semi-geometric slab serif. Not my style per se, but definitely readable.

On my iPad the font looks like I'm seeing double - there are two distinct versions of the text with a gap between the two.

If you are fine with bright text on dark backgrounds, sure.

I'm not. Looking at this for a few minutes will impact my vision and it will most likely also cause severe headaches. Migraine is fun like that.

Anyhow, the tddbin site uses a black on white color scheme. There is no reason for the index site to be inverted.

I prefer bright text on dark backgrounds, so I set my OS accessibility settings to invert my screen.

Presuming your OS has such features, you might find it helpful to invert the screen when looking at pages with light text/dark background.

(I change my screen to normal for such sites.)

HTH

Only a tiny percentage of websites uses a dark color scheme.

I have a small bookmarklet for nuking colors, which I can run via some shortcut (ShortcutKey2URL).

javascript:for(var e of document.querySelectorAll('*')){e.style.color=window.getDefaultComputedStyle(e).color;e.style.backgroundColor='#fff'}void(0)

Kinda crude but it works well enough.