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Difficult to see selected text vs unselected text

Open SkepticMystic opened this issue 1 year ago โ€ข 8 comments

Related to #66, but not just for highlighted text.

The contrast for selected text in the editor is quite low, making it difficult to tell what exactly is selected. Dark mode is better:

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But light mode is particularly difficult:

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SkepticMystic avatar May 22 '24 06:05 SkepticMystic

CleanShot 2024-05-22 at 15 29 37@2x

CleanShot 2024-05-22 at 15 28 59@2x

would this be better? or is it too light?

ceciliamay avatar May 22 '24 07:05 ceciliamay

Haha that seems even harder to tell ๐Ÿ˜… it might just be my screen, but I literally cannot see what text you have selected there

SkepticMystic avatar May 22 '24 08:05 SkepticMystic

i think it's very faint myself haha! what do you think about inverting the colors?

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im wondering if its too much and if it moves away from the design language. probably will iterate on this and try some other solutions but wanted to know what you think of it since I agree that the text selection should be improved.

ceciliamay avatar May 23 '24 04:05 ceciliamay

Woh, that's certainly more readable! Perhaps too intense tho, as you say. Ummm I kinda like it? I personally wouldn't be offended at the change, but I also don't know what the phrase "design language" means, so grain of salt :p

I checked on a different device, and can confirm that my original screen is particularly bad at contrast. It's easier to read on mobile.

SkepticMystic avatar May 23 '24 04:05 SkepticMystic

Noted hehe! I'm still iterating on this and came up with these. I'm thinking that the one below seems to be a mix of both original and the iteration above? what do you think?

CleanShot 2024-05-24 at 11 56 48@2x

CleanShot 2024-05-24 at 11 57 53@2x

ceciliamay avatar May 24 '24 04:05 ceciliamay

Nice yeah, those are much clearer, and not too intense. I'd argue for a smidge more contrast (particularly in dark mode), but this is much better

SkepticMystic avatar May 24 '24 04:05 SkepticMystic

thought so too! just increased a lil more contrast for dark mode. will add it to the next release! thank you so much for your input ๐Ÿ™

ceciliamay avatar May 24 '24 04:05 ceciliamay

Awesome, thank you :)

SkepticMystic avatar May 24 '24 06:05 SkepticMystic