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bagels
Completely illegible due to the colors and lack of contrast. Would be greatly improved if newsprint gray + black were used.
holman
I hate it when my ransom notes aren't legible.
ekianjo
yeah, usually ransom notes are made of cut-outs from newspapers, therefore only in black and white on greyish kind of background :)
xerophtye
Submitted an issue. Might submit pull request later. She limited the foreground range but not the background range, so we can assign them mutually exclusive ranges to keep it under control
piyush_soni
May be it has some nostalgic/historic importance which I don't know, but if not, why would you want to do it?
xerophtye
It's sort of an old cartoonic reference to ransom notes which were assembled from cut out letters to hide the hand writing of the author. (obviously now u could just email them)
css771
Substitute magazines instead of webpages and you've got an answer to one of the most famous interview questions.
gulbrandr 

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Do you really need jquery for this?