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Dark mode for Wikipedia in Safari

Cameleon recolours Wikipedia in Safari with one of five skins, three dark and two light, and changes nothing but colour. In Wikipedia's own colours, 18 of the 1,662 pieces of text measured are under WCAG AA contrast; under each of the five skins, every one of them passes.

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Wikipedia in each skin

Wikipedia's page in its own colours
18 of 1,662 pieces of text are under WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 5.37:1.
Wikipedia's page recoloured by Cameleon's Midnight skin
All 1,662 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 6.04:1.
Wikipedia's page recoloured by Cameleon's Dusk skin
All 1,662 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 6.44:1.
Wikipedia's page recoloured by Cameleon's Legacy skin
All 1,662 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 6.82:1.
Wikipedia's page recoloured by Cameleon's Sunset skin
All 1,662 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 6.77:1.
Wikipedia's page recoloured by Cameleon's Yardage Book skin
All 1,662 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 Wikipedia offers by itself

Wikipedia has a dark mode of its own: the Appearance menu beside an article has Color, with Automatic, Light and Dark, and Light is what a visitor gets until they choose. With the Mac set to dark appearance, the page stayed light.

What Cameleon does on Wikipedia

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

The contrast, before and after

ColoursText under WCAG AAMedian contrast
Wikipedia's own18 of 1,6625.37:1
Midnight0 of 1,6626.04:1
Dusk0 of 1,6626.44:1
Legacy0 of 1,6626.82:1
Sunset0 of 1,6626.77:1
Yardage Book0 of 1,6626.61:1

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.

Wikipedia 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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