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New compound button colors feel very bright and aggressive in the dark theme.
Steps to reproduce
- Open the settings for example
Outcome
What did you expect?
A theme that is not disturbing to look at for long times
What happened instead?
The buttons have very harsh contrasts, making it hard for me to read and look at them for extended amounts of time (aka anything more than 30s).
Operating system
Fedora Silverblue 39
Browser information
Firefox 121.0.1 (64-bit)
URL for webapp
develop.element.io
Application version
Version von Element: 92c831094d11-react-ed5ef023b24b-js-d03db1740586 Krypto-Version: Rust SDK 0.7.0 (fac36bc), Vodozemac 0.5.1
Homeserver
matrix.midnightthoughts.space
Will you send logs?
No
Because these parts of the interface weren't designed with the new Compound colors in mind, we're definitely overapplying those bright, punchy primary buttons here. This situation will get better as we redesign more of the application to use Compound buttons in a way that matches their visual weight, but I think changing some of these buttons to secondary ahead of a redesign is also reasonable.
On the second iteration of this change (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/12299) I changed some of these buttons to secondary where appropriate.