Post #1926499
2026-04-27 16:17 UTC
@fvsch I know a lot of people with reading difficulties will use selection to act like a finger or ruler to help them track the line.
That text selection is truly revolting. I don't understand people adding so much trash to text in any mode. We're not in the 90s where Word Art is rad and cool and new... (except we are, kinda, where management and marketing are involved)
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@fvsch@hachyderm.io 2026-04-27 18:04
@NatalyaD The text styles in the screenshot are alright, it's a subtle text-shadow effect used to reinforce contrast as seen in the first paragraph. The issue arises when the background color changes due to the selection. The selection background color can vary wildly based on the OS, browser and user settings. I'm on macOS with a pink highlight color, this translates to a dark pink color for selections in Firefox, not sure what Safari does. Theoretically one could do: ```css ::selection { background: highlight; color: highlighttext; } ``` But the `highlighttext` value didn't work correctly in my tests. I'll have to try more things and document what I find.