Windows 10: High Contrast Themes in W8.1 and W10

I have made a brief outline on how to apply high contrast themes in W8.1 and W10. In W7 the technique is different. High contrast is a big advantage for those like me who have a reduced vision.

The outline is at my One Drive. Because of the setup I chose, it would have been difficult to post it here. Just click on this link.

Note: With a left click on the tile at the site, you can read it in your browser. But the pictures do not come out very good. With a right click you can download the 5 page PDF. It will show better in your PDF reader.

The quality of the video suffered also a bit. The YouTube conversion always degrades the videos somewhat. In reality the high contrast pages are more vibrant with more contrast.

:)

 

I am red green colorblind and windows 10 is about 20% invisible. Any suggestions

Have you tried Themes and tried High Contrast Black or High Contrast White or one of the other High Contrast Themes?

 

Restore default Windows 10 display "background" and "color"

You are currently in a High Contrast theme. Go to Settings :: Ease of Access :: High Contrast and turn off the High Contrast theme.

 

One peculiarity, on my machine at least is, if you don't keep 'Selected text' black:





... some 'buttons' in the Modern UI will remain inverted in color:

 

Thanks Edwin for pointing that out. I'll have to check that.

 

My current High Contrast colors; I'm actually starting to appreciate the possibilities.
I've yet to determine how I got the FF UI to stay like that but it looks great, I like it!

 

Even the Office Preview doesn't look too bad in High Contrast!

 

That ugly those edges in the system tray, I hope to be removed in the final version

 

i don't like what high contrast does to my start menu and others, but i would like to be able to change the background color of my windows, and would definitely like to be able to change the color or transparency of my title bars.

 

Look how nice it would this theme:






Here you can vote because microsoft make this themes:
Windows design – Feature Suggestions for Windows

 

yeah, these are things that might happen in the future, and what i need is something that i can get now. of course when windows is official, there will be thousands of new themes and customizations from third party venders, but what is there right now is the thing on my mind. in my earlier post, i as talking about the high contrast themes in windows right now.

 

Heh, I came across this thread because my eyes have been tired lately and I loved Edwin's customization I was like wow, that looks amazing how come I can't do that. And then I released that stupid Microsoft removed this feature in Windows 10061? Why?

I must be blind as a bat or not too much time on my hands these days but doesn't it bother anyone at all that we cannot change the color of the title bars anymore? Stuck at white & grey? I won't lie when my eyes get strained I have a hard time distinguishing from focused to unfocused windows these days .... Really irritating when I'm doing multiple things at once, like currently .... anyone?

 

Very awesome theme bro, I use windows 7 , this is my theme http://aaron-a-arts.deviantart.com/a...ATED-317882595



I think micro$oft, should implement these grey theme. or atleast should give us option to set grey theme

 

This theme works well in almost all areas, immersive and native, 'buttons', links, hyperlinks, etc, so I thought I would share it here as well.
I applied a few tweaks and supplied a few 'extras'.





The items included are:
- The Themepack itself,

- 'Avqest' Fonts (optional),





- Gold animated cursor (optional),





- Desktop Background,

- 215 Icons ico and 215 Icons png, (optional), (courtesy of 'icebabee') http://icebabee.deviantart.com/art/B...Gold-259576159
sample:




The files can be downloaded here:

http://1drv.ms/1J6cTSq

The text is a little dim but you could brighten it a little within the Color Palette:





Notes:
Between Firefox, Edge and IE, surprisingly Edge holds all the elements the best! *Wink
Getting custom icons to work in some areas is tricky, want some help, just ask. *Smile

Enjoy! Doesn't cost a cent! *Smile

 

Edit:
Seeing as how I'm adamant about keeping the text the same shade as the desktop background logo, I've boosted the text size and boldness here:





It helps a bit.
Browsers you can change the zoom in themselves.
Changing the global dpi to something higher than 100%, however, renders the above function unusable.