Light Mode UI

Premiere Pro need a complete UI overhaul in my opinion.

It looks and feel old and since i moved to premiere pro i'm bored after 20 min of editing. And i edit a lot every single day.

I think it's that it feels clunky: like moving giant bricks and less snappier than counterparts like Final Cut or DaVinci.

But i will stick with PPro, because it is so costumizable!

With options to fast workflow with the moving panels, that for me is still the fastest option. Still, is boring as heck editing inside PPro.

A good direction for change is the ability to modify the style of icons and background colors. Like for example if one modder wants to make PPro look and feel like a windows XP app. Why not? Just release the code to change some aspect of the application to whom want's to feel alive again while editing.

(Incredibly) I just upgraded from CS5 to CC... And the Dark UIs are horrible! The brightness slider just makes it worse - mid grey is not a usable colour scheme. Please let us have the light interface back that CS5 had. Please. Please. Please.

As a person with dyslexia I find Premiere Pro with the grey on black totally unusable. Light mode would mean I can actually use the software I have licenses to use.
Seeking help on this issue has only directed me towards your 'inclusivity policy' which is infuriating.
Day-to-day I'm rarely affected by my dyslexia but the current colour scheme has me completely incapacitated.

I found the solution! But not without a rant: all graphic people know that white on the black is the worst readability on print and on web and HURTS THE EYES. This is why websites do not use "dark mode" black background for readability,. Video editing is very straining on the eyes and to think having a cool "dark mode" option is trendy is unthinkable for tasks where long hours of staring at detailed information and every tiny detial is critical for editing. Premiere, please get your act together: apparently your developers are not video editors and do not understand this basic UI. Please consider adding quick theme choices for your users (How about Dark/Light mode On/OFF button)? Please don't put your users through a hack.

Here is the solution on Youtube. It takes a few clicks to switch to Light mode and is not too difficult:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPKfTKq4J2Y

Note: when you follow the instructions above you get "white screen" in the console. Do this to the menu options: change the console menu from 'Console View' to 'Debug Database View' by clicking the sandwitch menu next to the console tab.

Hurts my eyes. If I have a film clip with a black background I find it difficult to distinguish between the end of the clip and the start of the workspace. Metrics hard to see

Gray text on the dark UI background does not provide enough contrast for easy reading. Sliders under Preferences --> Appearance do not help at all with providing more contrast. Please provide an option to increase/decrease the brightness/color of the UI text.

The lack of theme options is a little bit upsetting, especially from a company and product as prestigious as Adobe Premier Pro. This is 2021, you do not have to make any themes, just give the option for users to customize it themselves and it will sort itself out.

I cast my vote for solarized (light) theme as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarized

Just add a simple color choice like photoshop, ilustrator, and indesign.
The premiere pro color appearance slider is so poor and does nothing.
Delete it and change it like Photoshop, ilustrator, and indesign color appearance choice.
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If you don't know how it looks like, just call photoshop developer and ask him what it looks like.

As a new user, this dark interface is horrible!!! How can this pass ADA standards???. I understand many video editors may like the darker feel, but it is not for everyone. Please provide options for those of all sight abilities.

The ability to change the UI's colour scheme, in a similar way to how you can with Photoshop CC, is a necessity. The current scheme's lack of contrast makes it difficult to read text and make out icons.

Increasing the interface's brightness is not a solution to the lack of contrast between light and dark colours in the interface's scheme.

This is also an issue for accessibility, as Premiere Pro's UI falls well below visual accessibility standards.