Andy Clarke’s style switcher allows the user to dim the background image which makes the body text more readable
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Thomas
7 Jan, 2009
Or he could have just made a usable design that wasn’t hard to read for some (or maybe many) in the first place.
The other examples are good. This one is just a bad design for the web.
Juan Diego
26 Aug, 2011
It is a nice example, but I think it might be an anti-pattern if the designer is considering that there are chances that the user might find things hard to read.