make changing the checkered background colour possible

[ivan lavosky]

Hi,

Please make changing the checkered background colour also possible. The current checkered background colour is too bight or too contrast with the darkest artboard background available. I know a workaround for this like using solid colour rectangle in order to cover the checkered background, but this workaround won't take effect in outline view which I always use when I draw.

[Pšenda]

6 hours ago, ivan lavosky said:

I know a workaround for this like using solid colour rectangle in order to cover the checkered background

... or Transparency off in Document setup, or set Fill color to Artboard.

[ivan lavosky]

6 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

... or Transparency off in Document setup, or set Fill color to Artboard.

Transparency off makes it worse. Background becomes plain white, unless there's a way to change the background colour. Is there any way to do that?

 

[Pšenda]

6 minutes ago, ivan lavosky said:

Is there any way to do that?

17 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

or set Fill color to Artboard.

 

[walt.farrell]

8 hours ago, ivan lavosky said:

The current checkered background colour is too bight or too contrast with the darkest artboard background available.

As another possible workaround, do you have to have the Artboard background color that black? Perhaps if you lightened it slightly, the contrast would be better.

Also, are you sure you don't have the brightness or contrast of your monitor adjusted too high for the lighting levels in your room?

I agree it would be nice to be able to change the checkerboard, but realistically that won't happen for awhile, if ever, so investigating workarounds is also worthwhile.

[ivan lavosky]

On 6/20/2022 at 6:42 PM, walt.farrell said:

do you have to have the Artboard background color that black?

Yes, My eyes get tired easily if I work in a bright room. 
 

On 6/20/2022 at 6:42 PM, walt.farrell said:

are you sure you don't have the brightness or contrast of your monitor adjusted too high for the lighting levels in your room?

I adjusted my monitor's setting to "Contrast -> 12%" and Brightness "7%"

[ivan lavosky]

On 6/20/2022 at 5:13 PM, Pšenda said:

or set Fill color to Artboard

- Fill color to artboard

- Fill color using rectangular shape

All work great, but unfortunately they don't take effect in Outline View. Those fill colors will be hidden too and the checkered artboard becomes visible once again.

[Pšenda]

8 hours ago, ivan lavosky said:

All work great, but unfortunately they don't take effect in Outline View.

Yes, but if with it background transparency is turned off, so in Outline View Mode the background is white and the outline lines are black - what could be more visible?