Update colors to meet color contrast ratio, fixes #52586

src/vs/platform/theme/common/colorRegistry.ts

@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ export function getColorRegistry(): IColorRegistry {
 
 // ----- base colors
 
-export const foreground = registerColor('foreground', { dark: '#CCCCCC', light: '#6C6C6C', hc: '#FFFFFF' }, nls.localize('foreground', "Overall foreground color. This color is only used if not overridden by a component."));
+export const foreground = registerColor('foreground', { dark: '#CCCCCC', light: '#616161', hc: '#FFFFFF' }, nls.localize('foreground', "Overall foreground color. This color is only used if not overridden by a component."));
 export const errorForeground = registerColor('errorForeground', { dark: '#F48771', light: '#A1260D', hc: '#F48771' }, nls.localize('errorForeground', "Overall foreground color for error messages. This color is only used if not overridden by a component."));
 export const descriptionForeground = registerColor('descriptionForeground', { light: '#717171', dark: transparent(foreground, 0.7), hc: transparent(foreground, 0.7) }, nls.localize('descriptionForeground', "Foreground color for description text providing additional information, for example for a label."));
 
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ export const buttonBackground = registerColor('button.background', { dark: '#0E6
 export const buttonHoverBackground = registerColor('button.hoverBackground', { dark: lighten(buttonBackground, 0.2), light: darken(buttonBackground, 0.2), hc: null }, nls.localize('buttonHoverBackground', "Button background color when hovering."));
 
 export const badgeBackground = registerColor('badge.background', { dark: '#4D4D4D', light: '#BEBEBE', hc: Color.black }, nls.localize('badgeBackground', "Badge background color. Badges are small information labels, e.g. for search results count."));
-export const badgeForeground = registerColor('badge.foreground', { dark: Color.white, light: Color.white, hc: Color.white }, nls.localize('badgeForeground', "Badge foreground color. Badges are small information labels, e.g. for search results count."));
+export const badgeForeground = registerColor('badge.foreground', { dark: Color.white, light: '#4E4E4E', hc: Color.white }, nls.localize('badgeForeground', "Badge foreground color. Badges are small information labels, e.g. for search results count."));
 
 export const scrollbarShadow = registerColor('scrollbar.shadow', { dark: '#000000', light: '#DDDDDD', hc: null }, nls.localize('scrollbarShadow', "Scrollbar shadow to indicate that the view is scrolled."));
 export const scrollbarSliderBackground = registerColor('scrollbarSlider.background', { dark: Color.fromHex('#797979').transparent(0.4), light: Color.fromHex('#646464').transparent(0.4), hc: transparent(contrastBorder, 0.6) }, nls.localize('scrollbarSliderBackground', "Scrollbar slider background color."));