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I prefer light mode whenever possible, but since Affinity started adding dark mode, light mode has gotten harder and harder to use.

I just installed Designer 2, and I am finding it difficult to see certain UI elements.

This is export persona when I select an item:

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Layers view:

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To be clear, this was similar to my experience with the original Designer, but now it is much worse.

Posted
10 minutes ago, bedalton said:

light mode has gotten harder and harder to use.

I just installed Designer 2, and I am finding it difficult to see certain UI elements.

All of the applications, not just Designer.

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vs

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Things like this as well

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And this is from Publisher. Is there a disclosure triangle ?

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Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 
Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

Posted
52 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Is there a disclosure triangle ?

In your screenshot, yes. On your actual screen, only you can say..

-- Walt
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Posted
1 hour ago, bedalton said:

when I select an item

Is black your system wide selection color?

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

Posted
3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

In your screenshot, yes. On your actual screen, only you can say..

Walt, perhaps you mean, "In your screen shot on my actual screen, yes" ;-) 

Would a screen shot of Walt's actual screen with OldBruce's screen shot, viewed on OldBruce's screen be different I wonder.

On my actual screen with his screen shot, the disclosure triangle is only just visible if I look really carefully.

The problem I experience with "dark mode" is that constantly moving the focus of my eyes between the work area and the interface area has my eyes alternating, in quick and frequent succession between a very high average brightness and a very low average brightness. I find this extremely tiring on my eyes, similar to watching a strobascope.

The strong contrast between the black background of the interface and the white background of the working area is a lost contrast opportunity. The strongest contrast is being used up on semantically unimportant pixels (two different backgrounds), rather on the highlighting contrast between semantically important pixels (background/foreground).

It seems the colours for symbols (foreground) have been defined as the same colour in both modes, and the modes only change the background colour. For the modes to be visually optimal, both the backgrounds and the icons (foreground) must have colours unique to the each mode. Two sets of background colours and two sets of foreground colours optimally chosen to be paired with high contrast. I don't understand how such a (forgive the paradoxical pun...) glaringly obvious dysfunctional colour choice could make it past a release review.

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Posted
2 hours ago, GuyMiklos said:

The problem I experience with "dark mode" is that constantly moving the focus of my eyes between the work area and the interface area has my eyes alternating, in quick and frequent succession between a very high average brightness and a very low average brightness. I find this extremely tiring on my eyes, similar to watching a strobascope.

Yep. I never understood all this "dark mode hype" for about the same reason. 
Way more important than a "dark mode" is to lower the white point temperature of the display. Using f.lux, I have set it to 5000K (D50) during the day and 3000K at night while slowly adapting in between. Blue light is the evil.

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

Posted
3 hours ago, loukash said:

Is black your system wide selection color?

Aaah, yes it is. I was having trouble seeing in another app after a macOS update, so I had changed the OS selection color to black. Switching it to graphite makes it more like it was.

Thank you, this had been really frustrating

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