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While your signature is certainly one of the more creative ones I’ve ever seen on the project, I can’t read it unless I zoom it a great deal….and I have 20/20 vision! It just looks like some grey scribbles. WP:SIGAPP says that we should “not make your signature so small that it is difficult to read.”. Also, the color you selected for the signature…html grey (Hex #808080)…fails Web Content Accessibility Guidelines regarding contrast, being 3.94:1 where the minimum under WCAG 2.0 AA is 4.5:1. You can test this yourself here. See MOS:COLOR for further guidance. Could you please correct your signature? Thank you, —Hammersoft (talk) 17:36, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I changed color to DimGrey (Hex #696969), which should have a contrast of 5.48:1 based on WebAIM Contrast Checker and looks nice. I’m not sure about the size issue, it’s just the font Blackadder ITC with the default font size. I do not have 20/20 vision, and on my screen I can read it with standard text settings at 65% zoom no problem, it doesn’t become difficult until I zoom out to 50%. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 18:21, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it still seems awfully small to me, but thanks for changing the color! —Hammersoft (talk) 00:22, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What kind of screen are you on? I’ve checked it on mobile but work mostly on desktop. Is it the whole signature, or just the talk link that reads “chat?” I’ve seen other editors use just their initials before, and thought at least the GS portion was legible. I would hate to change it to much, as it’s already spread fairly widely, and people might not recognize that it is still “me” if it was too dramatic. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 01:45, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GeogSage yeah… it’s small on my laptop. Perhaps increase the size? Thanks, ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 03:58, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Per the Wikipedia:Signatures#Appearance_and_color “Avoid markup such as <big> and <span style="font-size: 200%;">^{(or more)} tags (which enlarge text); this is likely to disrupt the way that surrounding text displays.” I figured this was not a good option to take. I almost made my signature “GS ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} ” but decided having the smaller letters was fine per the guideline: “A customised signature should make it easy to identify your username, but this is not required.” I figured that the signature was identifiable enough, and it is just the font style at the standard font size. Is it the Chat, or the whole signature? At 100% zoom using standard Wikipedia text size, it seems perfectly legible. Choosing the small font size and zooming out to 65% is where I start to have a problem, but that is true of most sub scripts. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 04:26, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GeogSage on laptop, if you see it from regular zoom, it looks a bit small, but if you look close up, it looks visible (though the font looks bumpy) ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 04:29, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The bumpiness is kind of just the blackadder itc font. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 04:35, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} Better, worse, or same? Another font I had considered, but I preferred the way the “G” looked in Blackadder. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 05:04, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GeogSage that looks even more difficult to see! ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 14:29, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It’s not the most visible signature, but I do see it clearly on my laptop. The Blue Rider 11:16, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@The Blue Rider maybe… ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 14:23, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Like. It reminds people that such a thing as cursive once existed. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:27, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]