{"id":50357,"date":"2025-12-09T16:58:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50357"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:30:39","slug":"windows-has-contrast-problems-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/09\/windows-has-contrast-problems-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Has Contrast Problems, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grumpy.website\/1723\">Nikita Prokopov<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/grumpy.website\/1723\">\n<p>Top (Windows 95): great contrast, obvious shapes. Instantly readable.<\/p><p>Middle (Windows 11): shapes are still self-explanatory, but contrast is gone.<\/p><p>Bottom (Windows 11 Insiders): what am I even looking at? The only shape I can understand here is the Run button. Barely visible, though. <\/p><p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/ui-degrades-windows\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/ui-degrades-windows\/\">\n<p>As someone who uses a Windows computer for my day job, I can confidently say this allergy to contrast <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/alan-app\/\">affects both platforms<\/a> alike, and Prokopov&rsquo;s comparison offers just one example. Why this trend persists, I have no idea.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/03\/alan-and-aaron\/\">Alan and Aaron<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/16\/how-to-turn-liquid-glass-into-a-solid-interface\/\">How to Turn Liquid Glass Into a Solid Interface<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"windows-has-contrast-problems-too-update-2025-12-11\">Update (<a href=\"#windows-has-contrast-problems-too-update-2025-12-11\">2025-12-11<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SheriefFYI\/status\/1998538659843420418\">Sherief, FYI<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SheriefFYI\/status\/1998538659843420418\">\n<p>my mom got a new laptop and had trouble dragging windows around, I tried taking a look and out of the box the draggable area is the same color (not even low contrast) as non draggable chrome.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikita Prokopov: Top (Windows 95): great contrast, obvious shapes. Instantly readable.Middle (Windows 11): shapes are still self-explanatory, but contrast is gone.Bottom (Windows 11 Insiders): what am I even looking at? The only shape I can understand here is the Run button. Barely visible, though. Nick Heer: As someone who uses a Windows computer for my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-12-09T21:58:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"bc1e9de5-95d0-485a-9b80-c6d4f6c4a64c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-12-11T18:30:42Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AvB6d5ZXQSFqbgMbU9sSmTA","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":[77,295,219,2099],"class_list":["post-50357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-history","tag-windows","tag-windows-11"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50357","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=50357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50395,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50357\/revisions\/50395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}