Cameleon Skins For Safari

Cameleon recolours any website in Safari to a palette you choose. It changes colour and nothing else — never the type, never the layout — so a page keeps the shape you already know how to read.

Five skins. Three dark, for reading at night. Two light, which is the part a dark mode cannot do: a site that is already dark, turned to warm paper or to the sage and navy of a yardage book.

KEY FEATURES • Five skins: Midnight, Dusk, Legacy, Sunset and Yardage Book • Light skins as well as dark • A different skin per site, remembered • One skin for your Mac's light appearance, another for its dark • Leaves a site's own dark mode alone, unless you ask for a skin there • Every colour re-lit to clear a contrast floor of 4.5:1 • Colour only — no fonts moved, no layout changed, nothing hidden • Set a skin from Shortcuts, a Focus filter, or an optional menu bar item • Pay once. No subscription, no account, no adverts

HOW IT READS A PAGE A page uses a few dozen colours across a few thousand elements. Cameleon ranks the ones a site uses as backgrounds and lays them onto the skin's own ramp in the same order, so a site that stacks four shades of grey comes out with four surfaces you can still tell apart. Text is ranked the same way. A coloured header keeps its hue and moves to the skin's lightness.

THE CONTRAST IS MEASURED, NOT HOPED FOR Every foreground is re-lit until it reads at least 4.5:1 against the furthest surface in the skin, so the floor holds on a raised card and not only on the page behind it. On a Wikipedia article, 14 elements fail that bar in the site's own colours. Skinned, none do.

SITES THAT ARE ALREADY DARK A site shipping its own dark mode is left alone by a dark skin: you already have what you asked for, and two dark themes fighting is worse than one. A light skin goes ahead on that same page, because turning a dark site warm is the thing you cannot get any other way. Hovering a skin in the popup previews it regardless; choosing it for that site makes it stick.

SHORTCUTS, FOCUS FILTERS AND THE MENU BAR Set a skin from a Shortcut, tie one to a Focus so that turning on Work turns on Yardage Book, or switch on a small menu bar item holding the five skins and Use My Defaults. A skin set this way sits above your light and dark defaults and below any choice you have made for a particular site, which is the order a Focus wants. It takes effect on the next page you load rather than repainting tabs that are already open.

LIMITS • Photographs and background images are left as they are • A handful of sites built entirely out of web components are not recoloured • A site that switches its own theme while you are reading keeps the reading taken when the page loaded

PRIVACY • Nothing leaves your Mac. Colours are read and replaced in your own browser. • No account, no analytics, no adverts, and no record of what you read. • Your skin choices are kept by Safari, which syncs its extension settings through iCloud.

REQUIREMENTS macOS 13 or later, with Safari. You switch the extension on in Safari ▸ Settings ▸ Extensions and decide which sites it may touch.

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