Premiere Pro Interface Color? Light Mode UI interest gauge

For me, drak color makes me unfocus.

It will better if user can choose 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.

If you don't know how it look like, just call Photoshop developer and ask him what it is look like.

Not a fan of Dark Mode for anything. It really screws my eyes up and makes my shoes fall off.

Yellow mode, blue mode, light mode, dark mode or whatever.

It is not going to change any time soon despite the call for upvoting the uservoice.

I don't question what may have been said. Not at all. Nor even that one or more may have thought that was the driving reason.

I've talked this through at length with several of the program heads. Over multiple NABs. There was some talk of how to give the best reasoning, but it seemed quite clear the driving force was the M&E types. The program people didn't care a hoot for the change. Wasn't their idea.

M&E have given us some of the more "wondrous" parts of the Adobe apps over the years. Sigh.

Neil

No Neil, I'm not talking about Ann.  I'm aware that she's a contributor.  Ann, like myself has been on these fora for many years.  I refer to Caroline-edits.  I think that she started this thread last year. . .

I had many discussions with a Premiere Pro employee 6-7 years ago when yellow tuirned to blue.  I forget his name.  He has moved on, but was a frequent visitor to these pages.  He slightly contradicts your assessment of what were the driving forces behind  the UI change.  Keeping relevant to a new generation of users, driving people off FCP,  was very high up the list of reasons for the revamp. 

Many years ago, when the yellow first changed to blue, I was critical of the change because older eyes find it very difficult to see.  It fell on deaf ears.  Adobe at the time was trying to attract the iPhone/ FCP market and wasn't interested in the views of the early adopters (Premiere 5).  I gave up using it.  So it's interesting to hear Adobe employees saying that they're interested in our views.  They weren't in the past.

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.

Grownup UIs permit the user to chose a basic color scheme and font size. Premiere is the most fascist UI ever created. 

I'd like a "high contrast" option, ie the ability to slide the background to absolute black.  I'm spending 3 days logging feature rushes, typing detailed notes into each clip's "description" column. I'm getting eye-strain from the grey-on-charcoal UI which is the maximum contrast on offer.  Or better still can we have black text on white background option?

Thanks!

Light gray is one of the WORST colors for text imaginable. If you want to ruin contrast, choose light gray.  That's what you get.

Contrast is a big deal in UI. When developing successful UI for the web W3 has success criteria here. I don't know about UI and the Mac and PC, but it would be great if there were a similar standard to make sure that text didn't disappear into the background. Right now I would be happy if I could just get a light background with black text. That would cover it.