Tahoe's Elephant
a day ago
- #visual design
- #tonal contrast
- #macOS Tahoe
- Tone and its contrasts are fundamental in visual design, crucial for human vision and visual communication.
- Historical artists like Lucas Cranach the Elder and Gustave Doré emphasized tonal modeling in their works.
- Cranach's technique involved underdrawing with carbon black ink and undermodelling with grey tones.
- Grisaille, a technique using tone alone without color, was practiced by masters like Doré.
- macOS Tahoe's design ignores tonal contrast principles, making interfaces hard to distinguish in both light and dark modes.
- Accessibility controls in macOS Tahoe fail to adequately improve tonal contrast in text entry fields and list views.
- The design choices in macOS Tahoe disregard historical and perceptual insights into visual communication.