Light or Dark appearance? Liquid Glass Clear or Tinted? Reduce Transparency or Increase Contrast? Pick an Icon & Widget Style too. All illustrated.
appearance
How to use appearance mode, reduce transparency, increase contrast, and icon, widget & folder colour to get Tahoe looking just right.
Appearance modes and the effects of Accessibility settings exhibit different behaviours in Tahoe, compared with Sequoia. Illustrated in a simple app.
Now ignores spaces and hyphens in hashes, and converts them to lower case. Also improves readability in dark mode, within limits.
User content shouldn’t have its colours changed according to the appearance mode. So why do TextEdit and QuickLook thumbnails change custom text colours?
For 34 years, Macs were known for rendering black text on a white background. Then came Dark mode, and five years later some apps still can’t cope with it.
A new version of this Rich Text editor now remembers its appearance mode, and uses that as the default mode for documents too.
You preview a major Rich Text document, which QuickLook shows as completely empty. Has something terrible happened, or is it just a four year-old bug?
Obvious problems include QuickLook thumbnails and previews which display white text on a white background.
It may seem minor, but what TextEdit has been doing for the last 6 months is a travesty of what made the Mac.
The Eclectic Light Company 