FWIW, I'm partially vision impaired, and quite frankly the "softer" colors only blur the text, and the bright ones are downright painful. I vote to disable them.

Cheers

If it's not too personal, what's the impairment; & what colors are best for you?

I have acute astigmatism in my left eye ("legally" blind), and moderate astigmatism in my right eye. I'm also far-sighted. While prescription reading glasses work a charm with normal text and link colors and some darker "off" colors, they magnify the brilliance of lighter colors and cause the blurriness. Bright colored text, such as yellow, is almost equivalent to shining a flashlight in my eyes.

Thanks for the feedback. I've removed some of the larger options from the size dropdown, which should cut down on some of the most egregious abuses. Unfortunately in the current system there is no option to limit the usage by usergroup or set a maximum size. If there's sufficient demand it's possible we'd add this, but I don't think turning it off across the entire site is the best answer.

--jeremy

I almost made that type of argument about Sasha's example, but I don't have your problem, so I didn't know if the argument was valid. I do, OTOH, have hyperacusis & can get nearly homicidal in the presence of loud noises, e.g. shouting people.

Would take a look at Sasha's example & tell me if those colors are hard on your eyes? TIA.


jeremy,

Good choice, I think we can deal w/ the rest of it case-by-case.

Thank you for your concern Rick, and yes, I had to strain to read that. I couldn't look at it very long. I can't comment on other people's impairments except to say if the OP needed that style and color to see text, how did they read Sasha's reply?

Cheers

archtoad6,

I sent you a PM re:
:D

Sasha,

Quit shouting at me -- you know how much it hurts! :D :D :D

Seriously, thanks for the PM, a reply is on its way.

Never got a good answer, the OP there took my questions as a personal attack, perhaps because I also questioned the legality of the OQ (original question :)), which had to do w/ ripping a copy protected CD that she insisted is legal. The discussion went nowhere, & I decided to drop the matter in the interests of harmony.


Color Summary
The crucial question for future cases is:
Why do you need to use bold colors when writing your posts, but not when reading our posts?
or
How do you normally read the 'Net?-- What is special about composing a post at LQ that is different from your other browsing activities?

Possible comment:
Suggestions for refining the above comment on color are welcome.


Size comment, probably not polite enough to use
Again, refinement suggestions welcome.

Even as a new member i'm going to disagree. In any case policies could be updated to enable per-user restrictions in case of abuse. That way a wide majority of users that do use sane formatting still can have the feature.

Juako

Why should colors be used for making things lighter? Seems like it would be a better idea to have a tag that makes text fainter.

Also, there already is bold and italics for emphasis.

Speaking about font abuse: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...46#post4214546

uh that post was the newsbot, possibly a hiccup in the article or something like that, the reply i agree is font abuse

The text in the post of the bot is not the same as in the linked article, so I assumed that the post was edited.

The post was not edited, and I'm not sure how that made it into the feed. The size element has been removed.

--jeremy