Make Windows Easier on Your Eyes With Color Filters and Contrast

Windows has a group of display settings built for eyes that struggle with the standard screen. They are grouped under Accessibility, and none of them cost anything or change your files.

Color filters adjust the colors the screen sends out. Windows includes filters for the three common types of color blindness: red-green, another form of red-green, and blue-yellow. If charts and colored buttons have always been hard to read, one of these can make them separate clearly for the first time.

Two filters help people with no color vision problem at all. Grayscale removes color entirely, which reduces glare and can make text steadier if your eyes tire in the evening. Inverted turns light backgrounds dark, which some people find calmer in a dim room.

Contrast themes are a separate setting. They are stronger than filters, replacing the colors of buttons, menus, and text with high-contrast combinations across all of Windows. Black text on white, or yellow on black, are the common choices for low vision.

You can turn color filters on and off with one shortcut: hold the Windows key and the Ctrl key, then press C. Being able to flip it back quickly is what makes it worth trying. Nothing here is permanent, so there is no risk in testing each option for a minute.

If text is the real problem rather than color, the separate Text size slider in the same Accessibility area may serve you better. Try that first, then add a filter if it is still hard.

(Source: Microsoft Support — support.microsoft.com/windows)