Electric Prayer

If you find that the rubrics in a Universalis page, which are usually red, appear in either black or white with a fringe of the opposite colour round each letter, then this is because you have turned on the experimental “high contrast” mode in Android, which makes these changes to any text displayed by an app.

The overall effect is as if you were writing with a fountain pen on wet blotting paper and it is quite hard to read. The only cure is to turn the high-contrast mode OFF.

There is no one way to do this in Android. It depends on what version of Android you are using and also on how your manufacturer has chosen to modify Android before giving it to you.

Here are the two commonest ways:

• In the Settings app, open “Accessibility” and then go to “Visibility enhancements”. The High Contrast Fonts setting is the first one in the section headed “Colours and clarity”.
• n the Settings app, open either “Display” or “Accessibility”, and then go to “Display size and text”. The High-Contrast Text setting is at the very bottom of that screen and you may need to scroll to see it. There is an illustrated guide here.