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.

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By: https://jannesmeyer.com

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Users: 5,000+

Rating: 4.43 (21)

Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2015-03-09)

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

Ranking

# 13868 ▼ 60

Other rankings

#6775 in Developer Tools ▼ 11

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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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 reduce distractions and focus on important content
Effective for users experiencing headaches from long screen time
Works well for printing web pages in black & white
Simple and secure to use

Cons

Cannot set black & white mode by default across all websites
Does not remove textured backgrounds, making some content unreadable
Lacks a feature for automatic application on chosen websites
Not following best practices for Chrome extensions may lead to lack of future support

Most mentioned

Desire for a default black & white setting
Need for background removal for improved readability
Requests for a dark mode option
Interest in automatic application on specific websites

Recent reviews

This extension may soon no longer be supported because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions. I tried many solutions, and in the end, installing this new version resolved the issue: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/white-and-black/kolnojcfgcbflebnmjkmflfjimdiackk

tao mt, 2024-09-30

Karolina Chojnacka, 2024-08-11

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.