"True" black on white contrast ratio: 21
Medium's default very-dark-grey on white contrast ratio: 14.54
This bizarre theme-that-makes-it-hard-to-focus-for-non-contrast-reasons contrast ratio: 14.52
If legibility was important to this author, they could have done the bare minimum to improve the legibility on their own site. The bare minimum was to not change the default theme. A bit above that but more honest to their claim: host somewhere else and use a darker grey.
If legibility was important to this author, they could have done the bare minimum to improve the legibility on their own site. The bare minimum was to not change the default theme. A bit above that but more honest to their claim: host somewhere else and use a darker grey.