Publisher 2.2.1 Dark mode. I cannon see thumbnail of layers

[anto]

Could you draw the thumbnails in white in the dark mode? You can't see anything in black on black. Or leave those squares light.

And in light mode, make the thumbnails darker.

[walt.farrell]

As a possible workaround, have you tried switching the thumbnails to have a transparent background? it's an option in the Layers panel settings (3-bar menu).

[anto]

19 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

As a possible workaround, have you tried switching the thumbnails to have a transparent background?

The transparent background, in addition to the gray outlines of the objects, also adds a chessboard, so everything is blurry.

[carl123]

Try the Light/Dark Thumbnail Background options in the same hamburger menu (switch transparency off for thses)

[anto]

2 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Try the Light/Dark Thumbnail Background options in the same hamburger menu (switch transparency off for thses)

Thank you, but I would like it to be a little darker.

[carl123]

In light thumbnail background mode, the background is always 205,205,205

The colours in the thumbnails are the same RGB colours of the actual layers/objects

You can check this with the colour picker in the Colour panel (set thumbnail size to "Large Thumbnails" to better pick a colour from them)

As your design colours (object colours) approach 205,205,205 they will appear with little contrast against the light thumbnail background and will appear invisible if set to exactly 205.205.205

Not sure how Affinity could cater for this unless they used dynamic/changeable thumbnail background colours that change depending on the colour of the layer/object but I can imagine that becoming a bit of a visual mess.

Have you/anyone seen how other similar software apps get around this "problem"?

[anto]

20 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Not sure how Affinity could cater for this unless they used dynamic/changeable thumbnail background colours that change depending on the colour of the layer/object but I can imagine that becoming a bit of a visual mess.

This is how it should have been

 

 

[Fuzzywan]

As a start, I'd be happy with a basic Photoshop-style checkerboard color editor so we can set something that works best for us in most situations.

(Screenshot condensed for clarity.)

My preference happens to be green (0,255,0) for both grid colors because I hardly ever use that color, so I always know what's transparent and what isn't.

An algorithm to choose the best colors for the layer would be nice, but not critical if each of us can choose something fine tuned to our idiosyncrasies. 🙂