David Kuspa wrote:
We had used a brighter blue earlier in our beta cycle, but were told by some of our beta testers that it was too bright, so we dialed it back.
David Kuspa |Adobe | Sr. Experience Designer, Digital Video & Audio
David,
Thanks for chiming in here in this thread. For what it's worth, I am a former "light appearance" user. As in light background and dark letters. Dark always looked cooler for sure, but I sort of had to do the light appearance because after 50 hours a week editing my eyes would just go fuzzy with white letters on dark background. Looks like that's not around. Okay, so I just spent my first evening with the new 8.1 and it does look nice. Many tabs and icons stand out and look cooler than ever before. The dark blue numbers were very difficult to discern on the dark background. HOWEVER, if you change the appearance to the lightest it can go (which I'll have to live with...again, looks cool but time will tell if my eyes will handle it)...when it's at it's lightest, the numbers of the TIMECODE on the timeline and the Viewer go to a lighter blue. That, to me is MUCH easier to read and not too bright at all. However, strangely the numbers within the settings of an effect do NOT go lighter in color like the timecode does. This hopefully changes. It stays that same dark blue and is VERY difficult to read. I hope this changes.
David Kuspa wrote:
Please try adjusting your Appearance preference's Brightness slider to a lighter gray background color and see if that helps you. This also brightens up the blue a bit.
David Kuspa |Adobe | Sr. Experience Designer, Digital Video & Audio
This above is what I'm referring to. The blue within an effect's settings do NOT brighten up as you mentioned. See pic below and you tell me what's easier to read: The "50%" or the "41:04" of the timecode? (This is on the lightest background setting) To my eyes, the timecode is WAY easier to read.
I really wish they BOTH changed colors and became lighter because the brighter blue is MUCH more readable to my eyes. I'm mid-30s pretty good eye sight by the way, but I do use Premiere 50-60 hours a week so hopefully this non-change is an oversight and not done on purpose and can be adjusted in the future. If you won't go yellow, or whatever people are asking for, and the users that preferred black letters on light background are now out of luck, I hope that you'll at least optimize the colors to all be brighter at the lightest background setting. Thanks for your time.