I agree. And this is not intentional. What you have here is a mix-up of new and old visual settings. Try and empty your cache once again (but keep the cookies), and make sure "Preserve favourite website data" is unchecked. Log in again and things should look better.
New release candidate of the visual interface will be out very soon. All of you who have tested the new interface beta will automatically get the updated release candidate. Thanks for helping us with the testing and don't forget to give feedback, comment and vote.
Just after this idea was being posted we went out with a release where we made sure to improve the contrasts. We would be happy to hear if you still experience low contrast in...
Karolina Jackson-Ward
The idea or feedback is about a previous and now closed beta