# Background colour on unread notifications gone

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/background-colour-on-unread-notifications-gone/379818
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 22, 2025, 11:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/background-colour-on-unread-notifications-gone/379818 "2025-08-22T11:21:27Z")
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### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2025, 12:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/background-colour-on-unread-notifications-gone/379818/5 "2025-08-22T12:16:13Z")

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Ok, so on your site, I can see the `secondary` var is set to this:

 ![CleanShot 2025-08-22 at 14.10.10](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/d/9/cd9bdcc7dcf5c55224008e8e0329061377dc9ce2.png)

While the default colour would have been: `#ffffff`

Your colour (`eef47f`) is _very close_ to the colour that is now used for the highlight, since the update, and that’s why you no longer see a difference.

What you can do:

### Solution 1

Reset the secondary variable back to its default. This will impact the general look of the site, and turn your light-blue background back to white

### Solution 2

Target the specific highlight variable via CSS and change it to something else with higher contrast.

The variable used is:

`background-color: var(--d-unread-notification-background);`

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