On: Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's Mindstorms

[erlehmann_]

> At my age I can barely read the article's thin, small, low-contrast font

I am 28 years old and find it hard to read as well. People who choose small font sizes and low contrast degrade usability a lot. Here is an article about the numerous failure modes of low-contrast designs: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/low-contrast/

[copperx → erlehmann_]

I agree, but isn't bright #FFF white against black or near #000 the highest contrast possible in a monitor?

I blame the thin font, not the low contrast, for the readability problem.