Android 15 wants to make Material You a little more visible

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Android 15 may offer color contrast settings to make Material You colors easier on the eyes.
Users can manually adjust the appearance of text with light, medium, or high contrast levels.
The preview feature allows users to see how different contrast levels will look before choosing one.

Starting with Android 12, you can dress up your phone with colors that match your wallpaper, giving Android, Google apps, and even some third-party apps a fresh look. Additionally, you can increase contrast to make it easier to read. But as our eyes age, we need more contrast to be productive. To that end, Google may add features to Android 15 that make Material You colors easier on the eyes.

According to Android expert Mishaal Rahman (writing for Android Headlines), the Android 14 QPR3 beta 2.1 version includes a hidden “Color Contrast” page. This feature allows users to adjust how text is displayed on the screen. This option allows users to manually darken specific parts of their materials to deviate from the default look, which often uses similar shades across various UI elements.

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The default setting is the brightest, but if you want things to stand out more, there are options for “medium” and “high” contrast levels. There are also some great tricks to make your text even more readable. You can turn on a setting that adds a black or white outline around the text. This works in both light and dark modes, darkening the text on light backgrounds and lightening it on dark backgrounds.

There’s also a handy preview that shows you what different contrast levels will look like before you choose a contrast level. However, note that not all apps support all color and text contrast settings on the settings page.

This feature is not entirely new. Google appears to have been tinkering with a similar setting back in previous versions of Android 14. These settings have been a bit hidden only to developers, but this new menu seems like a more user-friendly way to access that option.

This page may be included in this year’s Android 15 update

If you’re tech-savvy, you might be able to spot these new settings hidden within the code of the latest Android 14 beta. But for most people, they won’t see this feature until the official Android 15 update later this year. Rahman said that once officially released, it will be located in the following locations: setting > accessibility > color and movement.

The great thing about these new contrast settings is that they work in conjunction with Material You. If your app uses the material You for its colors, it will automatically adjust to the higher contrast you choose, making it easier to read.