Yeah no. The iMessage white-on-blue isn’t a significantly better contrast ratio. I would actually prefer black text here. Low contrast UI elements are the call

Yeah no. The iMessage white-on-blue isn’t a significantly better contrast ratio. I would actually prefer black text here. Low contrast UI elements are the calling card of Alan Dye’s design team. The iMessage and SMS contrast ratio doesn’t rank because there are so many other UI issues that have crept in from this team over the years. If the blue provides a slightly better contrast ratio, it is bound to be incidental and if I were a betting man, I would bet that someone actually likes the green used for SMS. This entire message style by the way is a direct descendant of iChat AV where you could actually choose your message color. When Apple developed SMS and then iMessageS for iPhones, they chose basically iChat’s design, and picked their favorite bubble colors and what we have today evolved from that. E.g.: [1] https://osxdaily.com/2011/02/14/prevent-annoying-im-text-styling-with-ichat/ https://osxdaily.com/2011/02/14/prevent-annoying-im-text-sty... (note the drop-down menu with “Lime” selected, you can Google around for other colors). [2] https://flylib.com/books/en/1.463.1.538/1/ https://flylib.com/books/en/1.463.1.538/1/