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Black and White
Turns black and white vision on
What is Black and White?
"Black and White" is a Chrome extension that simplifies your web browsing experience. When activated, it removes borders, outlines, background colors, text colors, box shadows, and text shadows. This helps identify the information hierarchy in your web design and ensures adherence to a coherent visual grid. With reduced visual noise, it lets you comprehend the typographic structure of any web page with ease.
Stats
Users: 4,000+
Rating: 4.63
(19)
Creation date: 2015-03-09
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- activeTab
Size: 9.66K
URLs: Website
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Summary
When activated, the extension disables borders, outlines, background colors, text colors, box shadows and text shadows.
Seeing a web page in such a rudimentary form helps you evaluate the information hierarchy of your design. Suddenly it becomes much easier to make sure you are adhering to a coherent visual grid. Without the visual clutter it allows you to see the typographic structure a lot easier.
Source code (licensed under GPLv3): https://github.com/JannesMeyer/chrome-black-and-white/
User reviews
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Pros
- Helps focus on important content on the website
- Cures headaches due to long hours of screentime
- Solves the problem of printing web pages with black and white text only
Cons
- Doesn't convert all elements to black and white, making some text unreadable
- Doesn't turn on automatically for chosen websites
- Needs to solve the issue of background and text both being black
Most mentioned
- Need for automatic application on chosen websites
- Removing colored backgrounds for readability
- Helps in reducing distraction
Recent reviews
Needs to remove the background too, otherwise websites with a texture background and a white box with text, with the white box removed, become unreadable.
Similar problem happen with black mode, text becomes black but background remain black.
A dark mode would be awesome; make background black, and all text white.
Also needs a feature to turn it on by default on chosen websites as other user suggested.
I tried it on some newspapers, but since some graphs were colored, become unreadable.
by 
7, 2023-09-15
7, 2023-09-15Much needed app for people who would like to enter monk mode, cutting off all the distractions
by 
Jyotiraj, 2023-01-06
Jyotiraj, 2023-01-06Simple, Good, Secure. but I wish there was a choice to do this automatically on chosen websites
by 
Noam Sl, 2023-01-04
Noam Sl, 2023-01-04Safety
Risk impact
Black and White is safe to use. It does not request any sensitive permissions.
Risk likelihood
Black and White has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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