HTML Color Test

Version 1.0 2.0
Last updated 1/3/97 8/8/26

This is the second HTML Color Test, conducted by Onio on August 8th, 2026, after the last HTML Color Test was conducted by Charles S. Tritt on a gray background back in January 1997. I didn't agree with his findings, so I've added my own report below.
Body text color is 000000 (black). Background color is d0d0d0 (light gray, HTML Assistant Pro 97's default background color is c0c0c0). Rating scale is: Very Good, Good, Okay, Poor, Bad and Very Bad.

The color ff0000 (Bright red) is very bad. It hurts my eyes. I don't know why Mr. Tritt thought it looked good.
The color e00000 (Medium red) is better, but still bad. I can read this, but I would still prefer not to.
The color a00000 (Dark red) is good, I could read this comfortably with enough contrast against 'light gray.'
The color ffff00 (Bright yellow) is poor. This is the first rating which Tritt and I agree upon.
The color a04040 (Dark brown) is okay. It is readable.
The color c07070 (Brown) is poor, it is on the edge between comfortable and uncomfortable to read on this background color.
The color e0a0a0 (Light brown) is very bad. I can barely read this, it's borderline invisible, I have no idea what Charles S. Tritt was seeing on his CRT screen back in 1997, but it definitely was not the same thing that I am seeing.
The color 00ff00 (Bright green) is poor, but better than light brown, I don't know why Charles thought this was worse than 'light brown'. There is nothing on this page worse than 'light brown'. This color does hurt the eyes, but at least it is legible.
The color 10a010 (Medium green) is okay.
The color 00ffff (Very bright bluegreen) is poor.
The color 20b0b0 (Medium bluegreen) is okay.
The color 008080 (Dark bluegreen) is okay.
The color 0000ff (Bright blue) is good.
The color 0000cc (Medium blue) is very good. Charles thinks you should use this for unvisited links.
The color 551a8b (Very dark blue) is okay.
The color b020b0 (Medium purple) is okay.
The color a020a0 (Dark purple) is okay.
The color ff00ff (Very bright purple) bad.
The color 202020 (Dark gray) is very good. It is the best.
The color 7f7f7f (Medium gray) is poor, barely legible.
The color ffffff (White) is bad.

My stardard body colors are: <body text="#000000" link="#0000cc" vlink="#a020a0" alink="#e00000" bgcolor="#d0d0d0">