[Strange/broken light UI style]

You fixed it! Nice, thank you.

[Strange/broken light UI style]

15 hours ago, loukash said:

To avoid this, the only workaround so far is to turn the UI Brightness slider down completely.

Interesting The brightest UI together with maximum text contrast is as actually usable. Thanks for the tip.

However, I would like to have UI as bright as other system apps.

[Strange/broken light UI style]

16 hours ago, Chris B said:

Update for the above comment: I've just tried a few other apps that have a Light UI and noticed that some of them change depending on focus. Still, I will ask the developers to look.

Thank you Chris for the response. If you want to follow system behavior, application without focus should have darker UI with grayscale icons (macOS Monterey). I think that older versions of macOS use different approach, but I'm not sure right now. However, if your products use custom UI theme, you could implement the latest modern behavior. Or just don't change UI colors at all (many 3-rd party apps do that).

[Strange/broken light UI style]

I prefer to use light UI on macOS and I must say that version 2 has lots of serious issues with this option. It looks like nobody bothered to test it.

• Different UI brightness right after setting light UI and after swithing to different app and back.
• Too dark background of selected buttons – bad contrast with icon.
• Too dark backgrond of all buttons actually. Hard to distinguish between normal state, pressed and disabled.
• Select boxes have dark background, they look like disabled. (Input boxes are white)
• All icons on buttons are flat with very low contrast. (Icons in dark mode are much more colorful with 3D effect.)

Overall it is so bad that it forces me to use dark UI instead. Version 1 of Affinity products do much better job in UI usability.