{"id":36579,"date":"2022-07-25T15:03:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36579"},"modified":"2022-07-25T15:03:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:03:11","slug":"too-much-transparency-in-macos-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/25\/too-much-transparency-in-macos-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Transparency in macOS 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/the-safari-downloads-window-needs-opacity-100\/\">Matt Birchler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/the-safari-downloads-window-needs-opacity-100\/\">\n<p>This is what Safari&rsquo;s download window has looked like for years on macOS. It&rsquo;s pretty well laid out, but I always have trouble reading it at a glance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/macos-ventura-makes-macoss-contrast-problem-worse\/\">Matt Birchler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/macos-ventura-makes-macoss-contrast-problem-worse\/\">\n<p>Today I&rsquo;m back complaining about contrast and legibility again with the updated Home app in macOS Ventura.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to add an accessory today and I stared at the window for a few seconds, explored the menus, and didn&rsquo;t see a way to do it. I eventually did notice the small, nearly transparent plus symbol in the top right of the window, but good lord, that&rsquo;s not good.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/29\/always-show-window-proxy-icons\/\">Always Show Window Proxy Icons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/12\/transparency-in-macos-10-14\/\">Transparency in macOS 10.14<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/19\/reduce-transparency-and-reduce-motion-in-macos-mojave\/\">Reduce Transparency and Reduce Motion in macOS Mojave<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/17\/yosemite-observations\/\">Yosemite Observations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Birchler: This is what Safari&rsquo;s download window has looked like for years on macOS. It&rsquo;s pretty well laid out, but I always have trouble reading it at a glance. Matt Birchler: Today I&rsquo;m back complaining about contrast and legibility again with the updated Home app in macOS Ventura. I wanted to add an accessory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-07-25T19:03:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"f512e89e-5c44-42b1-a885-9428cc843b18","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-07-25T19:03:14Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A9RLonlxEQrGohZQozIQ7GA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[930,77,1844,30,2223,103],"class_list":["post-36579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-accessibility","tag-design","tag-home-app","tag-mac","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-safari"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36580,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36579\/revisions\/36580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}