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Mozilla Thunderbird link color is unreadable in dark mode

Elmar — Thu, 29 May 2025 01:14:46 GMT

Hello Mozilla and community,

it's bugging me for some time. The low contrast between the dark theme and the link colour is impossible to read for a visually unimpaired normal person.

See here:

I tried to look under Tools > Settings > Appearance but no color options. Maybe, there are colour choices but it would be nice if you could offer accessible default colors.

Regards, Elmar

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird link color is unreadable in dark mode

Elmar — Thu, 29 May 2025 01:20:24 GMT

Thanks to your searchable settings, I was able to find the color settings under the cue "theme".

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird link color is unreadable in dark mode

Elmar — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 10:32:24 GMT

The default dark theme that I got hides any monospace text like spoilers. It puts white background behind the white text. I cannot really imagine that these are default settings that your UI/UX responsible employees have tested, however I cannot remember having tinkered with it.

In the settings, I checked the checkbox "Enable dark message mode" which was unchecked. I don't know why it was unchecked but in it's unchecked state, it is useless. It seems to use dark mode back- and foreground with light-mode decoration.