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A light mode for Daring Fireball in Safari

Cameleon recolours Daring Fireball in Safari with one of five skins, three dark and two light, and changes nothing but colour. In Daring Fireball's own colours, 1 of the 336 pieces of text measured is under WCAG AA contrast; under each of the five skins, every one of them passes.

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Daring Fireball in each skin

Daring Fireball's page in its own colours
1 of 336 pieces of text is under WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 6.84:1.
Daring Fireball's page recoloured by Cameleon's Midnight skin
All 336 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 17.00:1.
Daring Fireball's page recoloured by Cameleon's Dusk skin
All 336 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 18.89:1.
Daring Fireball's page recoloured by Cameleon's Legacy skin
All 336 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 14.84:1.
Daring Fireball's page recoloured by Cameleon's Sunset skin
All 336 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 13.50:1.
Daring Fireball's page recoloured by Cameleon's Yardage Book skin
All 336 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 13.02:1.

Captured and measured 3 November 2026 with Cameleon's own engine, on the real page. How it was measured.

What Daring Fireball offers by itself

Daring Fireball is dark only: there is no light version and no setting for one. With the Mac set to dark appearance, the page was dark.

What Cameleon does on Daring Fireball

  • When Daring Fireball is already dark, a dark skin stands back and leaves its own colours on the page, because two dark themes fighting read worse than one. Choose a skin for Daring Fireball itself and it applies anyway.
  • When your Mac is light, Daring Fireball keeps its own colours unless you set a skin for light appearance, or choose one for Daring Fireball.
  • A light skin, Sunset or Yardage Book, always goes ahead on Daring Fireball, dark or not.
  • Choose a skin on Daring Fireball and it is remembered for Daring Fireball; other sites keep theirs.
  • Colour only: the layout, the text and the links stay as Daring Fireball made them.

The contrast, before and after

ColoursText under WCAG AAMedian contrast
Daring Fireball's own1 of 3366.84:1
Midnight0 of 33617.00:1
Dusk0 of 33618.89:1
Legacy0 of 33614.84:1
Sunset0 of 33613.50:1
Yardage Book0 of 33613.02:1

Measured 3 November 2026 on the page shown, a public one read without signing in, with Cameleon's own engine. WCAG AA is 4.5:1 for text and 3:1 for large text. How it was measured, and what it cannot fix.

Daring Fireball belongs to its owner, who has nothing to do with Cameleon. The captures show its public page, to show the colours.

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