Change display colours on Mac to make it easier to see what’s onscreen
To make it easier to see what’s on the screen of your Mac, you can invert display colours, make transparent items solid and modify how colours appear with colour filters.
Invert colours
Make the background dark so text and content stand out. This can be especially useful in apps and websites that don’t support Dark Mode. (To use Dark Mode on your Mac, see Use a light or dark appearance.)
Choose Apple menu
in the sidebar, then click Display on the right. (You may need to scroll down.)Turn on “Invert colours”.
Note: If you turn on Night Shift or colour filters (except Greyscale), “Invert colours” is automatically turned off.
Choose a mode for inverting colours:
Smart: Invert colours everywhere except images and video.
Classic: Invert colours everywhere.
Make transparent items solid
Some windows and areas of the desktop, such as the Dock and menu bar, appear transparent by default. You can turn these transparent areas a solid grey to make it easier to distinguish them from the background.
Choose Apple menu
Turn on “Reduce transparency”.
Filter display colours for colour vision deficiencies
To help differentiate colours on the screen, you can apply filters for colour vision deficiencies, view the entire screen in greyscale or tint the screen a colour of your choosing.
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
Go to Colour Filters, then turn on “Colour filters”.
The pencils reflect how the filter affects a range of colours.
Note: If you turn on Night Shift or invert colours, colour filters are automatically turned off (except Greyscale).
Click the “Filter type” pop-up menu, then choose a filter.
You can adjust the intensity by dragging the Intensity slider.
If you choose Colour Tint, click the colour well to choose the colour of the tint.
Note: Colour filters can change the look of images and videos.
You can use Accessibility Shortcuts to quickly turn Invert Colours, Reduce Transparency or Colour Filters on or off.
You can also have display colours become warmer as it gets dark out. See Change Night Shift settings.