Windows hasn't had an issue with black colour until Windows 8. Or they use the solution offeree since Vista, white glow around text. It doesn't specify chrome at all.Ĭustom themes on Windows 8 let you use black by using the solutions Windows has used since 1995. Metro doesn't say it isn't supposed to have black Chrome, just that it has an emphasis on typography and animation. The Royale Noire theme in XP was fine because it used white text, if you choose black colours on the classic theme it uses white text, using black colours on Vista and 7 was fine because text had a glow around it. Which is why you never find a usable black windows skin.Windows hasn't had an issue with black colour until Windows 8.
That title bar don't color is shared with another text, and if you set it white there are some areas of windows that would get unreadable white on white. It could also be part of the same issue windows has always had with dark themes. Who knows why, the official answer is that they don't consider it a problem. Actually it did, if you haven't noticed, metro isn't meant to have black chrome.Īnd yes they could have had an auto detect that changed the text color to white when the color passed a certain threshold.
