How to Adjust Contrast in Windows 10

This wikiHow will teach you how to adjust contrast in Windows 10 using high contrast mode. If you have low vision, enabling high contrast mode in Windows 10 is a simple and quick fix to adjust the colors everywhere on your computer. However, most standalone monitors, like LCD monitors, have a separate setting or button on them for adjusting and most laptops have display settings that will tune contrasting more minutely, like a graphics driver, which you could find by right-clicking your desktop.

[Edit]Steps

1. Press . By pressing the Win and i keys together, you'll open the Settings menu. You can also open Settings by clicking the Windows logo in the taskbar and clicking the gear icon.
   
2. Click . It's near the bottom of the menu next to a dotted line icon of a clock.
   
3. Click . You'll see this in the vertical menu on the left side of the window.
   
4. Click the switch to toggle it on or off under "Use high contrast." You may need to wait a moment if you're enabling high contrast for Windows to ready the color change.
   
   • If you don't like the default high contrast theme, you can select from the preselected themes in the drop-box listed under the header "Choose a theme." You can change the colors of various screen elements by clicking the colored rectangle next to the element's identifier. For example, if you don't like the hyperlinked text to appear in blue, click the blue box, select a new color, click Done, and then click Apply.

[Edit]Tips

• If you have a default high contrast theme that you like, you can quickly enable high contrast by pressing the left and .^[1]
• Some Windows 10 computers and graphics drivers (like computers run by an Intel graphics card) pop up with a menu when you right-click the desktop. Select Graphics Properties and then Display. You'll see Color Settings in the vertical menu on the left side of the Intel Graphics Control Panel window as well as a slider next to Contrast that you can drag left and right to change the color contrast. When you're happy with the change, click Apply. If you don't like the change, click Restore Defaults and close the window.^[2]

[Edit]References

[Edit]Quick Summary

1. ↑ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-high-contrast-mode-in-windows-10-fedc744c-90ac-69df-aed5-c8a90125e696
2. ↑ https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-desktop/how-do-i-increase-the-contrast-on-the-screen/a039e33e-07a7-482d-a006-9cd18ce77eec