Light Mode UI

Bought a subscription. The first thing I tried to do was to change to light mode. Guess what. There isn't one. What a catastrophic start!

The interface color is by far one of the worst things about Adobe Premiere Pro.

Premiere always used to be a nice light gray. Using it felt optimistic, happy, and wholesome. But all this black is SO depressing! It looks like some shady "application of the night". It might be fine for those up at 3am editing something seedy. But working during the daytime, Premiere's dark interface sends you to sleep. It's not in line with a professional application.

The current interface color options are a joke - you can either have black, or dark gray (which actually makes the text harder to read so there's no point).

Many Premiere Pro users are designers who have strong opinions about the way things look. It depresses us having to use something so dark and unattractive. Every good designer knows that dark text on light is far easier to read for prolonged periods, which is why most websites (including this one) use dark text on light. The text in Premiere Pro is hard to read, and I honestly can't see scrollbars at all!

PLEASE make Premiere Pro light again (along the lines of the colors of Premiere 5.0) or at least provide an option for it to be light. Ideally, give us more color options, perhaps even a few built-in preset themes? This would change the entire way I think about the application. Currently, I think of Premiere Pro as something dark, sinister, unwholesome, and unprofessional.

Also, the default colors are horrible. The interface uses various blue/green-blue colors that are garish, inconsistent, and too saturated to be paired with black. What you need for the program to look professional is a much softer blue, with a consistent hue throughout. And that turquoise color used for audio clips is a truly, truly horrible color! Totally harsh, unnatural and garish. It's a good job we can change that color, but it baffles me how such an ugly color could come out of the box as default.

Please add at least a white background option, grey on grey is so limiting, something with more contrast would be so much better... more options to switch it up from time to time.. when i'm staring at premiere pro for 40 hours + a week.. every once in a while.. i just want to switch up the view to make it feel fresh... a break from grey on grey is much needed.. please please please..

Please add a white background / interface with dark text for all adobe products. This grey on black is terrible for offices with large windows and even worse for eye health during the day having to squint and strain for hours. Why is this not an option for a company of this size offering mostly visual apps?

Basic usability principles were ignored in creating the "All in shades of gray or black" low-contrast theme currently being used. I honestly could not believe you didn't have a skinning system for Premiere Pro. When all your icons and text are tiny, single-pixel-width lines, low-contrast would seem like something to avoid.

Not everyone works in a darkened room. Additionally, we need good contrast as well. Grey-on-grey is awful.

It's like a lot of "designer" stuff these days. It appeals to "designers". I find the color scheme is hard to see. I've got a 32" 4K screen and I'm having to get too close to the screen to make out the symbols and text. I'd also ask for the ability to make the UI fonts a bit bigger. But yes. Give me a choice. Other than Really Dark versus Slightly Less Dark.

More customisation in general would be great.

Light background with dark text
Dark background with bright text (my preferred choice)

Bold text, italics, different colours or shades of text in effect controls panel (open an effect with loads of options like Beauty Box and it becomes obvious how much you have to search to find the parameter you need)

In general a stronger design so that our eyes naturally find things without having to scan. Kind of related, what I would love is a more obvious visual separator between the video and audio tracks in the timeline. And also alternate the shade of empty space in the tracks so it's easier to figure out whether I'm looking at V1, V2, V3 etc. Spreadsheet software does this and it would make readability so much nicer.