Professional vs amateur-ish in PCB design

[LukeFRC]

As a professional graphic designer who spends my working life doing graphic design, I can confirm reducing it down to “contrast” is an amateur approach

 

[Einzeln]

Conclusion: No consensus

 

[Paradox916]

Sorry, I only engage in Psychic Wars.

One of my favorite clutch albums

 

[jessenator]

Conclusion: No consensus nobody right, cept me

FIFY
(that's everyone, not just you…)

 

[pricklyrobot]

Amateur here.
I have some hyperbolically strong opinions too! Just not about any of this stuff…

 

[HamishR]

This is all just just opinion dressed as absolutes. Whenever anyone engages in this nonsense I get bored very quickly. Both professionally and as an amateur. And when you use words such as forae my wanker alert starts blinking wildly!

I have plenty of opinions on how I like things to be done but I don't go online and express them as right or wrong. Often when asked I will express my reasons on why I do things the way I do only to have someone point out why they do it differently for reasons I never thought of. The OP probably makes some good points but I dislike the adversarial posture so much that I'm likely to disregard them!

 

[Aleph Null]

Different design priorities result in different design choices. Low frequency (audio) electronics are pretty forgiving, so there's more room for discretion and fewer universally agreed upon best practices.