Didn’t look like that for me, plenty of contrast and much sturdier letter forms.

https://pasteboard.co/Xmg4tUPP9Cal.png

iOS 18.5 in app browser

wow, interesting, and thanks for the feedback.

android 13 here.

I am not sure what the reason is, then.

I tried increasing the brightness of my screen, but there seems to be no change.

but a lot of people, including on hn, do say that this low contrast thing is a disturbing trend, and from quite sometime now.

it's a pita.

Android 16 / mobile Chrome here, it displays a dark font like the iOS paste above.

It looks more like the browser is rendering the font color incorrectly than anything.

forgot to mention that it is mobile Firefox.

I had checked the settings earlier, nothing seemed applicable.

interestingly, just now I tried it on mobile Chrome, on the same phone, and it rendered okay.

https://pasteboard.co/pPrVKF3dyyhz.png

(didn't think of that earlier somehow, dumb me, maybe because the page wasn't that important to me.)

so it may be a mobile Firefox issue.

Your fonts look different and much thinner than mine do on iOS/ safari. Do you have antialiasing turned off or something?

yes, thinner, which is part of the problem, apart from the low contrast.

>antialiasing

nope.

Yeah, renders fine on my device too (ios 18.5 safari)