Les Wilson Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 I hope this gets fixed. I can barely use V2. I tweaked the UI settings as much as possible but the color chosen for Layer names is a UI design disaster. Yet some layer names are nice a legible. I have no idea why. I'm hoping this is a BUG not a WAD. PaoloT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 The legibility of light grey on a dark grey background is (as you would expect) not great, but it’s good enough that I can not only read the word ‘Rectangle’ but also see that the descender of the ‘g’ is clipped. Not ideal! By the way, JPG isn’t ideal for screenshots where text is included (because of the compression artefacts that you get around hard edges). PNG is much clearer, and it will probably give you smaller file sizes for screenshots of dialogs. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 The issue with automatic layer names (i.e., Rectangle, Curve) lacking contrast is a known issue. I assume we were supposed to be able to adjust the contrast with the Text Contrast preferences option. I agree it's too difficult to read with the default font size. Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.4 from this forum - expanded 300-page PDF My system: Affinity 2.4.2 for macOS Sonoma 14.4.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Wilson Posted November 29, 2022 Author Share Posted November 29, 2022 Thanks. I couldn't find another report of the problem ... there are so many ... and one gargantuan "I hate the UI" kind of thread .... I have the contrast at maximum and font size at large. It's horrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granddaddy Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 The disheartening aspect of all this is that Affinity 2 has actually made the UI worse by reducing contrast in a UI that is already difficult to read because of tiny typeface, tiny icons, and inconsistent use of highlighting. How does that happen after years of reports from customers having difficulty with Affinity 1 and years of additional development to produce Affinity 2? https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/173835-what-ergonomic-design-principles-call-for-minimal-contrast-and-reduced-readability-in-user-interfaces/#comment-1000160 https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/174379-visually-consistent-unselected-active-and-disabled-states/#comment-1001967 There are now so many threads from so many different people describing different aspects of what is basically one problem of usability/readability that it is difficult to keep up with them all. PaoloT, _Th, Les Wilson and 1 other 3 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.4.2 (MSI) and 1.10.6; Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 (MSI) and 1.10.6. Windows 10 Home x64 version 22H2. Dell XPS 8940, 16 GB Ram, Intel Core i7-11700K @ 3.60 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 4 hours ago, Les Wilson said: I couldn't find another report of the problem I vaguely remember seeing it reported a few times, and somewhere also acknowledged by staff as "logged". Personally, I consider this a bug, so it's always a much better idea to report such issues in forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/71-bug-reporting to get them acknowledged and logged faster. Les Wilson 1 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Schultz Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 Was there ever an answer to this? I can't believe how unreadable the layer text is and there is no way of tweaking it via prefs. It's driving me crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaoloT Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 To read the new UI (in dark mode) I have to use the Zoom feature in the Accessibility preferences. This should say something. Paolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Wilson Posted August 30, 2023 Author Share Posted August 30, 2023 It was only slightly improved. It's awful. I no longer recommend it to others. Granddaddy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 One factor is that the dimmed text of the layer type is not responding at all to the UI contrast/brightness settings. The undimmed text of layers that are named does respond, and the background responds slightly to the "UI Brightness" control, but the range of that control is a bit too limiting to get the dimmed layer type text to a reasonable point. I would argue that the fact that the text does not respond to those settings is probably best treated as a bug. The general lack of contrast/readability for that text may not be a bug, but it is clearly a design flaw. If you hover over the layer preview / icon you get a tooltip with the same text that is being displayed, except that it is actually quite reasonable to read - but you shouldn't really need to do that. I agree that there should really be some improvements in this area. Krustysimplex and Les Wilson 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 30, 2023 Staff Share Posted August 30, 2023 Hi @Les Wilson, Thanks for your feedback. We have this logged as a bug (contrast issue in automatically named layers). I've updated/bumped the report to bring it up to devs attention again. Frozen Death Knight, fde101, Les Wilson and 1 other 1 3 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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