Text on webpages. Really annoying

[Sid]

I've noticed that when I visit websites, in many
instances the text on them appear light gray on
a white background, hence somewhat difficult to read.

I find it difficult to believe that website designers
would use this, so I suspect it may have to do with
my browser settings.

Could anyone offer advice as to a 'fix' if there
is one?

Sid

 

[Brian A]

It may very well be the author is using custom colors that your system can't render
properly.

Try in IE if it's what you use:
On the Menu bar click Tools > Internet Options > General tab > Color button at the
bottom.
Of course this will change the colors for all web pages but maybe you can come up
with a happy medium.

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[Rock]

I've noticed that when I visit websites, in many
instances the text on them appear light gray on
a white background, hence somewhat difficult to read.

I find it difficult to believe that website designers
would use this, so I suspect it may have to do with
my browser settings.

It might help if you said what browser you're using. If internet explorer,
there is a newsgroup for that.

Newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

On the Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

 

[Paul Johnson]

I've noticed that when I visit websites, in many
instances the text on them appear light gray on
a white background, hence somewhat difficult to read.

Internet Explorer is notoriously bad when it comes to trying to display web
pages, to the point that writing pages that look good in Internet Explorer
look bad or don't work in other browsers, and writing pages to the defined
HTML standards everyone should be using (and most people do use), it won't
look right in Internet Explorer.

Have you tried it in Firefox? Odds are you came across a
standards-compliant web page that IE utterly fails on.