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It's a shame that we've developed all of these beautiful high-resolution/high-contrast displays...and now we're putting everything on-screen in light grey on a bright white background in Helvetica Light.

My eyes just can't take this. I'm not colorblind but I do need reading glasses. I wiped the iOS Gmail app just because the contrast gave me headaches.



Turn down the brightness. Seriously, if you're getting headaches you have it way too high for your normal environment's lighting.


Brightness isn't the problem. I never change it from default. These new 'airy' layouts are just plain harder to read.


Default brightness is probably brighter than minimum brightness (it is on Android, at least).


Lowering the brightness actually makes it worse. It has nothing to do with brightness and everything to do with contrast. The older you get, the more contrast you need.


If it's age, you're getting more farsighted, and need to go to the "increase text size" setting, which works considerably better than anything in iOS6

You might click "Increase text legibility".

I'm stoked for this ability for some relatives who's otherwise whip out reading glasses for email.




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