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BrianLevin
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April 16, 2024
Question

New label colors are all slight variations of brown

  • April 16, 2024
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First off thanks for the amazing visual UI refresh coming to Premiere, however the new label colors are all some variation on the same shadow of brown. It's honestly far more difficult to to tell label colors apart now.

 

Of course you can make your own label colors, and that would be a great solution here except for the fact that we cannot control the contrast of the text and waveforms against our labels. So if I go with the classic labels, many of my text and waveform elements vanish into the new UI.

 

In a perfect world there would be a middle ground option that allows us to control per label the contrasting color of UI elements, or the code that defines when text should be bright or dark would be reviewed so that it qualifies colors differently and more successfully achieves proper contrast. Pictures below:

 

And before you ask I just took an colorblind test and I'm A-OK on that front, the new label colors are all just murky and look similar. Like order a fried appetizer platter at a diner.

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Legend
April 18, 2024

Not sure about brown but the contrast of text against clip and deselected Vs selected is worse than previous

Shebbe
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 17, 2024

I agree with this. I highlighted the issue that the text color was flipped from black to white to accomodate the darker colors. But now the 'old style' label colors have the same issue as you'd have with using darker colors in the previous system.

You can see my post here and upvote or comment in hopes they will really adress this because now it's an equal step forwards and backwards.

 

The 'easy' fix would be to make text color contextual based on label color / luminance.