Translation guide
A display mode where foreground and background colors are swapped, often used for highlighting. In Japanese, this is typically expressed with the term 反転表示 or described as 色を反転させる.
Describing text or UI elements shown with swapped colors, like selected text or highlighted items.
Standard term for reverse video display, used in UI/UX contexts.
選択したテキストが反転表示されます。
The selected text is displayed in reverse video.
Literally 'invert colors', a more descriptive phrase.
Referring to a system-wide color inversion for visual accessibility.
Common term in smartphone/PC accessibility settings.
色反転を使うと、画面が見やすくなります。
Using reverse video makes the screen easier to see.
Do not translate 'reverse video' literally as 逆ビデオ or リバースビデオ. These are not used in Japanese.
Pressing this button reverses the video on the screen.
Short for 反転表示, common in technical settings.
反転している部分が選択範囲です。
The part in reverse video is the selection.
Specifically refers to negative-positive inversion, like a photographic negative effect.
アクセシビリティ設定でネガポジ反転をオンにできます。
You can turn on reverse video in accessibility settings.
More formal, 'inversion of display colors'.
表示色の反転機能を有効にしてください。
Please enable the reverse video function.