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ui: improve readability in picture background mode - #19552

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ui: improve readability in picture background mode#19552
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Simek:ui-improve-redability-in-picture-bg-mode

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@Simek Simek commented Feb 21, 2026

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Why

Recently turned on picture background mode to experiment a bit and have found that text readability in some cases is quite poor.

How

Add backdrop blur to boxes, tabs, side navigation and few other components. Introduce a helper mixin, tweak the picture selection popover.

Asset used for testing (few other images from default set are also not a bad test cases):

Note

I understand that this does not look bad on blurry and darker images from the default set, and some might not like the appearance changes, but since we allow users to specify custom images, it would be nice to at least try to ensure readability a bit, without obscuring image too much.

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ornicar merged commit a831949 into lichess-org:master Feb 22, 2026
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