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Dark mode for The Guardian in Safari

Cameleon recolours The Guardian in Safari with one of five skins, three dark and two light, and changes nothing but colour. In The Guardian's own colours, 23 of the 522 pieces of text measured are under WCAG AA contrast; under each of the five skins, every one of them passes.

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The Guardian in each skin

The Guardian's page in its own colours
23 of 522 pieces of text are under WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 12.63:1.
The Guardian's page recoloured by Cameleon's Midnight skin
All 522 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 11.03:1.
The Guardian's page recoloured by Cameleon's Dusk skin
All 522 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 12.59:1.
The Guardian's page recoloured by Cameleon's Legacy skin
All 522 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 10.28:1.
The Guardian's page recoloured by Cameleon's Sunset skin
All 522 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 10.92:1.
The Guardian's page recoloured by Cameleon's Yardage Book skin
All 522 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 7.63:1.

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

What The Guardian offers by itself

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

What Cameleon does on The Guardian

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

The contrast, before and after

ColoursText under WCAG AAMedian contrast
The Guardian's own23 of 52212.63:1
Midnight0 of 52211.03:1
Dusk0 of 52212.59:1
Legacy0 of 52210.28:1
Sunset0 of 52210.92:1
Yardage Book0 of 5227.63:1

Measured 3 November 2026 on the page shown, a public one read without signing in, with Cameleon's own engine. Its cookie-consent dialog was taken off first, as it is once a reader answers it. A further 18 pieces of text sit on a background image rather than a colour, which is painted over the colour beneath it, so they are counted as not measurable rather than scored. WCAG AA is 4.5:1 for text and 3:1 for large text. How it was measured, and what it cannot fix.

The Guardian 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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