Menu selector is impossible to distinguish by colour
I have trouble distinguishing the selected choice in most menus from all the other choices, such as the menu in the top right of the posted screenshot. Now, with the game window reduced, or with the image size reduced when posting here, the indicator is clearly visible as a brigher grey. Unfortunately, that's not the case should you try to open the image in full size, or in my case playing the game in fullscreen.
What can I do to make the colour differences more apparent?
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Interestingly enough, I've never encountered this problem and I also don't have any problem seeing that you have "Rain" selected when the image is blown up to full-size.
The easiest solution is to not play the game in fullscreen, which is what I usually do anyway (I have played the game in fullscreen before, and still haven't encountered the same issue) Of course, this isn't an ideal solution if you really prefer fullscreen.
The game has a pretty basic color palette, analogous to ANSI colors (also used in MUDs) I believe. Here is an ANSI color table. It consists of 16 colors; 8 basic colors and darker shades of those same 8 colors. I haven't gone through the game's color codes to verify that they're the exact same as ANSI codes, but I've played more than my fair share of MUDs and I can tell you that the palette definitely looks familiar. Namely, the last two colors on that table are the LGRAY and WHITE that you'd be looking at.
As Nick mentions in the comments to the OP, you can also change the color values for the LGRAY and WHITE color variables that the game uses for the menu. You mentioned having trouble distinguishing these two colors in the menu -- therefore, while it is true that you may well mess up something relating to the game interface, it sounds to me like it will help you, if anything. Seems like it would make it easier to tell gray items from white ones on the world map.
Fortunately, DF has very transparent game files that can easily be edited by the user. I say take Nick's suggestion and modify your color settings -- all you have to do to restore any bad changes is back up your original file. It's not like you can permanently break the game this way, and even if you do you can just extract your save/world file and reinstall the game.
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Find an old CRT and play on that. I used to play MUD on CRT and there was a similar thing. The white vs gray was very distinct on it. When I moved to LED/LCD, I could barely tell the difference anymore.
Its an artifact of your monitor. Maybe changing contrast or brightness will help if you don't have a CRT. CRT were just superior imo. But it is possible to work out the settings on your monitor/tv thats lcd/led to make it visible. I just did that to fix mine by clicking on the computer setting in the video presets of the monitor, and it worked, although I had to turn that brightness down.
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