My tab bar isn't legible with liquid glass can I make it frosted?
Asked on 06/20/2025
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To make your tab bar more legible with Liquid Glass, you can utilize the accessibility features that Liquid Glass offers. One of these features is the ability to reduce transparency, which makes Liquid Glass appear frostier and obscures more of the content behind it. This can help improve the legibility of your tab bar by providing a frosted effect.
Additionally, Liquid Glass automatically adapts its appearance to ensure legibility by flipping from light to dark based on the background. This behavior is designed to maximize contrast and make elements like nav bars and tab bars easily discernible.
For more detailed guidance on using Liquid Glass, you can refer to the session Meet Liquid Glass (10:31) which covers the principles and adaptivity of Liquid Glass.
Meet Liquid Glass
Liquid Glass unifies Apple platform design language while providing a more dynamic and expressive user experience. Get to know the design principles of Liquid Glass, explore its core optical and physical properties, and learn where to use it and why.
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Update your AppKit app to take full advantage of the new design system. We’ll dive into key changes to tab views, split views, bars, presentations, search, and controls, and show you how to use Liquid Glass in your custom UI. To get the most out of this video, we recommend first watching “Get to know the new design system” for general design guidance.