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Show HN: Fix contrast, a free browser extension that fixes text contrast issues

23 points by kilian 5y ago

Arcadio 5y ago
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pachico 5y ago
I love it, congrats!
BugsJustFindMe 5y ago
It looks _amazing_. Will it be made open source? Every browser needs to have this.
- kilian 5y ago
  Not open source, it's based on code I built for https://polypane.app https://polypane.app But I am planning on making an extension for every (modern) browser that can have one.
wruza 5y ago
Can’t test right now, but very interested. Does it support these “mac guy who hates mac fonts” sites? (font-weight < 400; color: initial)
jvzr 5y ago
This is highly interesting to me (very bad vision thanks to keratoconus, can't stand contacts, and trying to wear my glasses less often for reasons). I can't wait to see this extension available for Safari (and on iOS 15 too!)
nazgul17 5y ago
I love this! Do you have plans for mobile browser support?
- kilian 5y ago
  Will definitely tackle iOS when I get started on the Safari version, but I'm not too familiar with what's possible on Android.
dvfjsdhgfv 5y ago
That's great, thank you! Some design gurus once proposed that high contrast is unaesthetic and many designers amplified this message leading to unnecessary eyestrain among users. That said, I personally try to stay away from browser plugins that I haven't written myself or I can't easily inspect the source code of, and whenever I can I solve this particular problem by using the Reader Mode if available.
- kilian 5y ago
  That's fair. For what it's worth: the code runs fully in the browser and never calls out or uses any external service. It's just a bunch of CSS and JS files on disk :)
NBJack 5y ago
Thank you for doing this. It's frustrating when websites either (a) require you to have a perfectly calibrated monitor to view the content or (b) require you to have a monitor as color-broken as the author's to view the content. I don't think people realize sometimes how much variance is out there, among both desktops and laptops, in how the grayscale in particular is rendered.
darkrai0707 5y ago
I installed it on my firefox and the it crashed within minutes. I think it eats up good chunk of my ram. I use Ubuntu 18.04 + Firefox 89.0

23 points by kilian 5y ago

Arcadio 5y ago

pachico 5y ago

I love it, congrats!

BugsJustFindMe 5y ago

It looks _amazing_. Will it be made open source? Every browser needs to have this.

kilian 5y ago
Not open source, it's based on code I built for https://polypane.app https://polypane.app But I am planning on making an extension for every (modern) browser that can have one.

wruza 5y ago

Can’t test right now, but very interested. Does it support these “mac guy who hates mac fonts” sites? (font-weight < 400; color: initial)

jvzr 5y ago

This is highly interesting to me (very bad vision thanks to keratoconus, can't stand contacts, and trying to wear my glasses less often for reasons). I can't wait to see this extension available for Safari (and on iOS 15 too!)

nazgul17 5y ago

I love this! Do you have plans for mobile browser support?

kilian 5y ago
Will definitely tackle iOS when I get started on the Safari version, but I'm not too familiar with what's possible on Android.

dvfjsdhgfv 5y ago

That's great, thank you! Some design gurus once proposed that high contrast is unaesthetic and many designers amplified this message leading to unnecessary eyestrain among users. That said, I personally try to stay away from browser plugins that I haven't written myself or I can't easily inspect the source code of, and whenever I can I solve this particular problem by using the Reader Mode if available.

kilian 5y ago
That's fair. For what it's worth: the code runs fully in the browser and never calls out or uses any external service. It's just a bunch of CSS and JS files on disk :)

NBJack 5y ago

Thank you for doing this. It's frustrating when websites either (a) require you to have a perfectly calibrated monitor to view the content or (b) require you to have a monitor as color-broken as the author's to view the content. I don't think people realize sometimes how much variance is out there, among both desktops and laptops, in how the grayscale in particular is rendered.

darkrai0707 5y ago

I installed it on my firefox and the it crashed within minutes. I think it eats up good chunk of my ram. I use Ubuntu 18.04 + Firefox 89.0