ColouredWeb generates and installs a custom stylesheet that re-colours the internet to make it easier for people who are sensitive to particular colours to use the internet. Here is an example of a relevant condition.
Note that ColouredWeb development is currently inactive since there are currently really good alternatives. See below.
While this is easy to use for someone comfortable on the command line, right now this would be rather tricky for other people. There will be a much easier way available in the future, but the project is not ready for this yet.
The project repo is at https://github.com/ksandom/colouredWeb.
I’ll do a deeper blog post about this in the future, but for now let’s say this:
This project scratched an itch, and it did a very good job. I continued using it for years with almost no maintenance (which is kind of amazing considering what it does, and how it works), but browser plugins have since evolved and work really well. In the mean time, it really was due for some attention, both to address things I wanted to improve, and to make it more usable for people for non-technical people. But my spare time for maintaining it was tight, and there were not some really good alternatives. So now I recommend those.
The tech industry is constantly changing, so one day this may prove useful again. If that day comes, I’ll blow the dust off and bring it to its former glory. In the mean time, here are some suggestions.
Gorgeous! Uses what looks like a filter to invert colours, but intelligently leaves something partially intact such as images and videos. Includes some controls for fine tuning the look.
| Browser | Platform | Have I used it? | Do I recommend it? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome based browsers (Eg Chrome, Chromium, Vivaldi, Opera) | Linux | Yes. | Yes. |
| Firefox | Linux | Yes. | Yes-ish. Very slow. |
| Safari | macOS | No. | NA |
| Windows | Windows | No. | NA |
This has a couple of modes. It has a couple of stylesheet based solutions, that I recommend (they are really fast), and an invert, that works in a very similar way to DarkReader. The invert mode has similar performance implications to DarkReader.
| Browser | Platform | Have I used it? | Do I recommend it? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firefox | All? | Yes. | Yes. Really fast! |
| Chrome based | All? | No. | Intriuged! |