onvitaik added a comment.
The problem, as I see it, with it looking "fairly light" is that all the button and frame borders are lighter than the background and almost as light as the text. These color changes just exacerbate this issue. On that note, light borders on dark buttons makes no sense if you think of buttons like the keys on your keyboard. It makes the button look like it's sunk, and the borders take your focus nearly as much as the text does. Right now, it's almost like there are a bunch of neon signs all over the place. With darker borders and frames, it looks much less painful to the eyes: F8127315: edit.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F8127315> REPOSITORY R31 Breeze REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D24009 To: filipf, cblack, ndavis, #vdg, ngraham, #plasma Cc: onvitaik, anthonyfieroni, plasma-devel, Orage, LeGast00n, The-Feren-OS-Dev, cblack, jraleigh, zachus, fbampaloukas, GB_2, ragreen, ZrenBot, ngraham, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, ahiemstra, mart