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 display colours with colour filters.
Invert colours
You can invert display colours to make it easier to read text. 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.
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”.
Differentiate or tone down colours
You can apply a filter to view the entire screen in greyscale, adjust colours for colour vision deficiencies, 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.
For most filters, 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.
To quickly turn Invert Colours, Reduce Transparency or Colour Filters on or off using the Accessibility Shortcuts panel, press Option-Command-F5 (or if your Mac or Magic Keyboard has Touch ID, quickly press Touch ID three times).
You can also have display colours become warmer as it gets dark outside. See Use Night Shift.