<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>It's a reasonable suggestion. I've updated the design so that all the internal cross-references share the same color. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://mbutterick.github.io/racket-doc-redo/doc/">http://mbutterick.github.io/racket-doc-redo/doc/</a> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Nov 15, 2013, at 7:25 AM, Neil Toronto <<a href="mailto:neil.toronto@gmail.com">neil.toronto@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On 11/13/2013 11:33 PM, David T. Pierson wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 06:55:10PM -0800, Matthew Butterick wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I've made a number of updates to the Scribble CSS, and posted more sample<br>docs, if you care to revisit:<br><br><a href="http://mbutterick.github.io/racket-doc-redo/doc/">http://mbutterick.github.io/racket-doc-redo/doc/</a><br></blockquote><br>I notice an improvement in the styles used with definitions and most<br>content on pages like<br><br><a href="http://mbutterick.github.io/racket-doc-redo/doc/reference/pairs.html">http://mbutterick.github.io/racket-doc-redo/doc/reference/pairs.html</a><br><br>But some of the link styles are still too grey/light for me (like the<br>link for "Mutable Pairs and Lists" at the top of the above page) and the<br>links in the table of contents pages like<br><br>http://mbutterick.github.io/racket-doc-redo/doc/guide/index.html<br><br>are too light for my eyes.<br><br>When I'm reading a web page for information I like the links to stand<br>out. I suppose it helps me scan/navigate more efficiently. I feel like<br>the grey links have the opposite effect. It is as if they are hidden.<br></blockquote><br>There are studies that show hyperlinks may reduce reading comprehension by increasing cognitive overhead, and that how much is partly determined by how they are presented:<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_comprehension#Reading_comprehension_and_hyperlinks">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_comprehension#Reading_comprehension_and_hyperlinks</a><br><br>Overhead also seems depends on the background of the reader. Readers with more domain knowledge appear to be less affected by hyperlink presentation.<br><br>What Matthew has come up with might be a decent compromise.<br><br>Neil ⊥<br><br>____________________<br> Racket Users list:<br> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>