More and more of our texts have become invisible, by which I mean that they are technically present, but illegible. I simply can’t read them. They have been taken over by graphic designers who say ‘text is ugly and gets in the way.’ So they make it prettier by using a really tiny font with very low contrast. If you’re a 20-year-old programmer, you can read it, but an 83-year-old grouch like me can’t. I always carry a flashlight with me, so I can shine it on the text, which increases the contrast.
Interesting, that this text itself is easy to perceive but hard to read as a whole.