Menu bar colour

You asked for a coloured menu bar icon, and a way to turn it off. This page shows Monochrome, as now, beside three Colour looks, at real menu bar size. Each sits on light and dark bars and on four wallpapers. macOS 26's menu bar is clear, so the wallpaper is what the icon sits on. Under each one is the ␣'s contrast against that ground: 3:1 is the floor for a glyph. The Settings row is at the end.

A #p0 is open (the dot) Increase Contrast Menu open (pressed)

Settings › General › Appearance

Your menu bar with this setting:

Questions

80. Which Colour look: B, Sage ␣ (recommended), C, all Sage, or D, the tile?

81. Sage falls below 3:1 on most wallpapers here, not just the teal. With B, should the ␣ keep its Sage anyway (recommended: Colour is a look you chose, and the ⌘ in the label colour still carries the mark), or turn to the label colour wherever Sage can't reach 3:1?

82. Under Increase Contrast, should Colour draw as Monochrome (recommended), or keep Sage in its higher-contrast tone, as this page shows?

83. While Hidden is picked, if app mode is turned off and the hotkey cleared, the icon comes back on its own, and Settings says so (recommended). Or should the last way in refuse to turn off while Hidden is picked?

84. While the icon is hidden in app mode, the #p0 dot has nowhere to show. Should it become a Dock badge (yes/no)?