Web text colour


conrail

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running windows 11 pro on a lenovo laptop with the Brave browser, is there anyway I can change the browser text colour, on previous windows 10 laptop the text was darker and easier to read, on this new laptop the text appears grey and I am having dificulty reading it, I did manage to set up dark mode which works on this page but not on all pages, the attached is from my local newspaper, apologies about the content but I just used the snipping tool to get some text, as you can see the text just looks grey, all help and advice appreciated

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It looks fine on my screen, so it's probably a setting or (unlikely) a failing display. Is the problem only in your browser? If so, try Edge or Firefox.

If you open a document in Word or Notepad, is it easy to read?

Is the screen set to its recommended resolution?
 

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thank you kelper, it is fine in word and with firefox so problem appears to be brave which I have used for many hears on old laptop, screen resolution is as the laptop came a couple of weeks ago, 1980 x 1020 (recomended), I have coppied same test using firefox , definitely a difference for mea.png
 

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It doesn't look fine to me. It's as he says,...gray...and big.

@conrail As @kelper says, try another browser. See what Edge looks like. I think it's a combination of your scale settings and your browser zoom level. Unlike using a large display, with a laptop one has to reach a happy medium with their font size due to lack of screen space.
You can test it by going to settings>display>Scale. Set scale at recommended level(100%) Then set your browser zoom level to 100%. If this makes your fonts black as expected, change scale to no more than 125% and tweak your browser zoom level a little at a time.
 

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thank you glasskutter, tried scale at 100% & browser also 100% but text so tiny I could barely read it so set scale back to 125% firefox fine at 90 or 100%, brave is the same but I get a darker text in firefox than brave, I appreciate both your and kelper's help, thank you both
 

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    logi wireless
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    brave
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    bitdefender
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