There is something really weird going on right now. On one side, hardware manufacturers sell their wares with ever brighter screens and higher color gradients and accuracy - on the other, interfaces have become dark, low contrast, monochrome, and stylized.

When I look at my KDE bar, there are only two icons with any color or line thickness at all. The other ones are all dark gray on light gray and line-based. I have to look three times to decide whether something is the WiFi indicator or the volume control; the clipboard and the wallet icons look too similar to tell which is which.

I don’t want the garish world of manufacturer ads, showing off how much brightness and color their devices are capable, but please don’t give me the exact opposite, and indistinguishable mess where everything looks the same even though you have the ability to distinguish it all. Life is already gray enough, show me something that cheers me up, please.