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Dark mode for DEV Community in Safari

Cameleon recolours DEV Community in Safari with one of five skins, three dark and two light, and changes nothing but colour. In DEV Community's own colours, 3 of the 336 pieces of text measured are under WCAG AA contrast; the results under each skin are below.

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DEV Community in each skin

DEV Community's page in its own colours
3 of 336 pieces of text are under WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 7.11:1.
DEV Community's page recoloured by Cameleon's Midnight skin
17 of 337 pieces of text are under WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 10.69:1.
DEV Community's page recoloured by Cameleon's Dusk skin
17 of 337 pieces of text are under WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 11.97:1.
DEV Community's page recoloured by Cameleon's Legacy skin
17 of 337 pieces of text are under WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 9.68:1.
DEV Community's page recoloured by Cameleon's Sunset skin
All 337 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 9.91:1.
DEV Community's page recoloured by Cameleon's Yardage Book skin
All 336 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 6.61:1.

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

What DEV Community offers by itself

With the Mac set to dark appearance, the page stayed light.

What Cameleon does on DEV Community

  • DEV Community stays light when your Mac is dark, so the skin you set for dark appearance recolours it.
  • When your Mac is light, DEV Community keeps its own colours unless you set a skin for light appearance, or choose one for DEV Community.
  • A light skin, Sunset or Yardage Book, always goes ahead on DEV Community, dark or not.
  • Choose a skin on DEV Community and it is remembered for DEV Community; other sites keep theirs.
  • Colour only: the layout, the text and the links stay as DEV Community made them.

Where Cameleon falls short on DEV Community

Under the three dark skins, DEV's sidebar cards stay white while the text on them is re-lit for a dark page, which leaves it too pale to read. DEV's own script removes the markers Cameleon puts on those cards, so they cannot be recoloured. The light skins are not affected.

The contrast, before and after

ColoursText under WCAG AAMedian contrast
DEV Community's own3 of 3367.11:1
Midnight17 of 33710.69:1
Dusk17 of 33711.97:1
Legacy17 of 3379.68:1
Sunset0 of 3379.91:1
Yardage Book0 of 3366.61:1

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.

DEV Community 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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