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as a color blind person (red-green and blue-yellow) these are very loud and a bit ugly to look at.

PRE-EDIT: yes, I can see colors. they just clash when certain shades are exactly next to each other

As a non color blind person I agree on those two points.

It always astonishes me how lack-luster google’s design language is.

Google's design language is amazing, but their color recommendations are terrible. The problem is that they require lots of contrast to help people with visual impairments, at the expense of making content ugly and unreadable for everyone else. It's unclear why we can't just have a media query to increase contrast to AA or AAA for those who need it, while leaving apps nice looking for those who don't benefit from the extra contrast.

There will be a media query, prefers-contrast, but it's a question mark as to when browsers will implement it.

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