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Oct 25, 2023 ⋅ 11 min read

Creating contrast themes with CSS prefers-contrast and JavaScript

Cristian Diaz Cristian is a frontend developer from Colombia. He enjoys writing about what he learns and is focusing his career on helping to make web content more accessible to everyone. His main areas of expertise are HTML, CSS, and web accessibility.

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One Reply to "Creating contrast themes with CSS prefers-contrast and JavaScript"

  1. Hi Cristian, thanks for your interesting article. You write that the media query “prefers-contrast” is quite young. This fact means that this media query still has room for improvement. For example, this media query does not take into account that there are both light and dark contrast designs (Windows 11: “Desert” and “Night sky”). It would therefore be better if the media query distinguished between a light and a dark contrast design: “prefers-more-contrast: dark” and “prefers-more-contrast: light”. This proposed solution follows the “prefers-color-scheme” logic. I’m not a fan of too much JavaScript because the complexity and therefore the maintenance effort for a website increases very quickly. Are you aware of any ongoing discussions on this topic? If so, where can I find them?

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