Barely readable

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JIM
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Barely readable

#1 Post by JIM »

What P****S me off is articles on a background that is almost the same shade of colour as the script itself........making it so hard to read that i give up....
is the idiot that does this a white stick operative ??? Practical Classics has done this on a number of occassions........as have other car Mags..

Jim.............
tractorman
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Re: Barely readable

#2 Post by tractorman »

I have even written to a tractor magazine about this - and still they like to put a full page (or double) picture on with nice dark sky - with black text on it. All that happens is that I turn the page and don't read the article at all. One of these days it will be something important!

I'll give PC their due though - they are much better than most and tend to put a text box in the photo so you can actually read the story!
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Re: Barely readable

#3 Post by JPB »

I haven't noticed many examples of this practice among magazines that I read, but what really does amuse me is the quantity of eBay listings where the phenomenon is apparent.

Don't they want to sell their stuff FFS? :lol:
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true.. :oops:
dannyhopkins
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#4 Post by dannyhopkins »

It's something I have tried to iron out, but this issue I think we messed up with the opening spread of the limo feature.... apologies. Must do better.

Danny
1970 ROVER P6B 3500
1971 JENSEN INTERCEPTOR II\
1971 MORRIS MINOR TRAVELLER
1994 JAGUAR XJ6 3.2S
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