Quote Originally Posted by quzah View Post
Thank you Capian Obvious. Fortunately for me, the forum doesn't disallow color, because if it did, I wouldn't have anything to amuse myself with. But just you wait, it gets better. You'll see!


Quzah.
If you insist on using color, use colors with at least a contrast of 64. Basically, the difference between the color 808080 and either 404040 or C0C0C0 is a contrast of 64. Anything less and it makes text hard to read, especially for those with poor vision. With snagging a screenshot, the color looks to be something like D0D0D0 so anything brighter than the color 909090 should not be allowed. Yellow (especially the slightly darker versions), at 246 CTBC (or F6F6F6; CTBC is color-to-black contrast) is almost unreadable with this and green, at 224 CTBC (or E0E0E0) is far harder to read. Your case of black and magenta is barely acceptable in terms of contrast (magenta is around 144 for the CTBC).

In addition, having all the color details just wastes space on the server. Each letter, instead of using just 1 byte, uses 24 bytes. If I did that with this message, ignoring the quoted part, it'd be 25 KB!