High Contrast

Change or invert the color scheme to make webpages easier to read.

Total ratings for High Contrast

3.47 (Rating count: 5,904)

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Pros

Improves readability of text-heavy sites
Useful for night-time browsing
Can help with low-contrast sites

Cons

Inverts colors of images
Can be buggy or not work for some users
Limited customization options

Most mentioned

Inverts colors of images
Buggy or unreliable
Limited customization options

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Recent rating average: 3.12

All time rating average: 3.47

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Timestamp	Author	Comment
2022-12-30	Robert Irelan	Seems pretty good for my usage, which is reading text-heavy sites at night with inverted colors for sites that don't have their own dark mode. Something that would make it much more useful for this use case is an option to only enable the inverted modes when night mode/dark themes are enabled. It's pretty easy to do this nowadays with just CSS: `@media (prefers-color-scheme: light)` (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme). I have enabled this in my local fork and I'm satisfied with the results.
2022-12-01	Brian Evans	It constantly toggles off. I had hoped for something that behaved similar to the Windows High Contrast mode but this does not. Slightly disappointed.
2022-08-01	Sean Kennedy	3 huge problems with this extension: 1. Doesn't change built in pages (like this store). 2. Inverts images (says it doesn't, but it does) 3. FAILS constantly. I regularly have to reload pages to get it to go back to inverted colors and then it goes away again (Google Drive, & Sheets revert all the time, ESPN does any time I first load a page, The apps script editor does any time I go to triggers or executions - well, you get the idea). Why don't the developers give us a built in smart invert like iOS has? Apparently the Apple programmers are smarter than the Chrome programmers.
2022-07-23	Christine Carmichael	Inverts the colours of images too but has helped
2022-06-09	Claudio Faria	This messes up with photos, so it's useless for most sites. The icon (black/white circle) doesn't show. I don't mind using the keyboard, but the difference between Shift+F11 and Shift+F12 is not clear. Sometimes I have to go through the extensions icon to enable it. At least it's set on a per-site basis. So, my default is set to Normal. If I get to a site I think it may be useful on, I try it (if I remember). If I knew the usability would be so restricted, I might not have installed it. If I don't find a lot of sites to use it on, I'll remove it.
2022-05-26	Sarah Trammell	I can't tolerate dark mode and am currently using a training website, PluralSight, that has that theme. The Inverted Color option gets me to the dark-text-on-white-background look, although it messes with the images as well. That's not really a big deal, but the videos being inverted was a problem when I could not view the videos full-screen. Using the Video Filters extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-filters/glkdajeidfbnmaehchohlcdcdkledpeh) helped me to adjust the coloring on the videos, mainly by using the Invert and Brightness sliders, so that they were more viewable when I could not view them full screen, when I would just disable the High Contrast setting. Both of these extensions together make viewing the PluralSight website much more comfortable for me.
2022-05-06	Luis F	Funciona, bien y no tengo que activarla, de nuevo cada vez que, entro en otro sitio.
2022-04-18	Craig Ryan	Very useful but basic bugs. With multiple open windows/tabs it applies itself to the current window/tab but then randomly to other windows at times. Google maps Print sometimes shows 'Preview failed' trying to print the page with enhanced contrast. Or page shows as enhanced contrast and Print cancels it just before printing and the usual faint maps page is printed. Reload map page fixes most issues.
2022-03-27	Kamil Xin Sot	Nadaje się jedynie do czytania w nocy. Bym używał negatywu ale problem jest iż wszystkie obrazki też daje w negatyw i nie da się na to patrzeć, dlatego też wielki minus za to. Pomysł dobry, ale wykonanie trochę słabe.
2022-03-14	Scott Hansen	Microsoft Edge removed it stating it contains MALWARE
2022-03-07	Sh	use this code instead, doesnt affect images html, img { filter: invert(0.96) hue-rotate(180deg); }
2022-03-02	lucas Wenger	worked perfectly with many options for what i need
2022-02-09	Joel Ford	Okay when it works. Really improves a lot of soft/low-contrast sites, i.e. google maps. Sadly, there appears to be no automatic refresh when you enable/disable, so you must do a CTRL+F5 to refresh the site. A definite improvement, but needs work.
2022-01-27	John G	Good, but needs an option for tab specific. Some pages are good with High Contrast, others are not. Please allow the user to mix and match.
2022-01-19	Keehan Koorn	I find that it often stops working when I return to a browsing session after the computer has been asleep. Same with when I load a new tab. The page will load, flash horribly, then go back to regular mode. When it works, it helps me quite a bit, but the flashing is terrible for my poor photosensitive eyes, so I will likely have to try to find another program/extension.
2021-12-22	Eddie Ortiz	Solo necesito el cambio de contraste para webs que se creen que sus lectores estan ciegos al poner las letras de sus articulos con un gris super claro. Me funciono perfectamente, no afecta las imagenes. Me gusto.
2021-12-19	Carol Metzger	I turned it off but it is inverting pages anyway. I will need to delete it. Also, inverting text is good, but inverting images is awful!
2021-11-27	Erik Eti Smit	It also changes stuff in pages you turn it OFF for. I wanted to use it only for Ooona (an in-browser app we use at work) but when I turn it off in Facebook, still all user icons disappear. If you just want to be able to invert pages, there's an extension called Invert that inverts the screen and does nothing more than that.
2021-10-28	Greg Klein	Helpful but very limited options. What's the point of enabling on a site with a white background if when I tab over to another black background, I get blasted in the face with white!? Let us set preferences for each site. Do it by domain name or something. My eyes and sleep schedule will thank you.
2021-10-07	Aadithya Viswanathan	Its too compute intensive... My i5 laptop almost drops dead. It's unable to even play videos without stuttering, to give a perspective.
2021-09-06	Nilson Amaral	Estou tendo problemas com essa extensão quando eu desativo ela todos os videos no navegador ficam com a tela branca ficando impossível ver videos.
2021-07-16	Elias Khalil	Fantastic.Thanks Devoloper
2021-05-17	l z	别的插件没法设置黑色背景的，这个插件可以，强烈期望给个白名单网站的选项
2021-04-30	Tiago Franzoni	Bom e muito prático. Porém, ao meu ver, sertia muito melhor se houve a possibilidade de, alguma forma, selecionar quais guias do Chrome a extensão High Contrast estará ativa! isso facilitaria para ativar a extensão apenas nas páginas de leitura e as demais continuariam sem alteração. #Ficaadica!
2021-04-18	Harshit Tomar	Does not work for PDFs😥