If you want prefer that completely black look, you’ll need to disable transparency in the Accessibility settings. You’ll notice in both screenshots that the wallpaper color bleeds into the menu bar.
RELATED: The Best Command Line Tools You Can Get on Your Mac With Homebrew Disable Transparency for Even More Darkness To disable thisand you should disable it, because it is badrun this command: Reboot and your Mac will be back to normal. You’ll find many windows are a lot darker. If you set appearance to Auto, your Mac will automatically enable Light Mode in the daytime and Dark Mode in the nighttime. To enable this open the Terminal and run the following command: Then log out of your account and log back in. Still, if you’re editing videos in a dark room, it’s nice that you can make the menu bar black to match the already dark user interface of your editing software. While macOS Mojave will give you two options Dark and Light, Catalina adds support for Auto Dark Mode on top. It’s unfortunate that more things aren’t darkened by this setting, especially because third party theming options basically broke when System Identity Protection came around.
The only other thing we could find that’s black now is the on-screen volume and brightness indicators. That’s just about all this tweak changes: your programs will look the same, and so will their interface elements. You now have a dark menu bar, and your menu bar icons should turn white so that you can still see them.