Appearance using Yosemite

I've just recently migrated to Yosemite from Snow Leopard and I don't like the way things look on my Samsung monitor. Specifically, the contrast between white and black is poor, eg. in System Preferences, the icon for the Mouse is barely visible as it's white on white with a thin black outline. The lines between sections in Mail and in Safari are too faint. The box around fields where you enter text is barely visible. The monitor is the same. I tried a different monitor and it didn't help.
I've played around with System Preferences, etc. to try and get back to the more pleasing appearance that I had under Snow Leopard to no avail. I've tried adjusting the monitor contrast, color, etc. and that didn't help with the problem and made colours look worse. Changing the Appearance for Button, Menus and Windows (in System Preferences) doesn't seemm to differ regardles of choosing Blue or Graphite. The highlight colors in System Preferences appear faint but in the actual highlighted fields they are much brighter.
One difference from before (other than Yosemite versus Snow Leopard) is that the interface to the monitor (which has a DVI connection) is using HDMI whereas before I used the Display Port. The interface cable is an Apple connector in both cases. Could the Display Port offer a solution? This may seem like a minor issue but it is frustrating.

Thanks for the help.
I bought an iMac with Yosemite on it a few months ago and the problem only started in the past couple weeks. If it is related to Yosemite, then it is specific to 10.10.3, since I updated to that recently.
I don't have any other plugins installed for Illustrator. I've never heard of Pushbullet.
I did try rebuilding the preferences folder already.
I'm currently rebuilding the template file I use for my maps, revising a version of it that I was using before this problem arose. If that makes a difference then I might be able to point to that file as being the problem. We'll see...

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