On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:18:50 +1100, FMurtz wrote:

Brian Gaff wrote:
No many people are dazzled. One problem is gamma. On a screen its
often easier to read closely matched colours with the same luminance,
but when you try to print that on paper which emits no light of its
own, the contrast has to be squashed down, and here is where the
trouble comes in. many food packages fall into the same trap. Indeed it
poses issues for reading aids like video magnifiers and text
recognition software as well as those with poor sight like cataracts or
macular degeneration.
Brian

They have young designers with giant computer screen with very high
resolution who think they are clever.



Large tracts of International Times were next to illegible because they
printed across graphics

That was in the seventies, long before bright young things, dtp etc