P: Label colours appear to have inverted in Premiere Pro

This is an eye sore that i'd like reverted. Please dont tell me im out of luck.

Wondering if there's a bug in the new label colors that were updated in PP 24.4.1?  Yellow now looks brown and is almost indistinguishable from selecting 'Brown', 'Tan' or 'Mango'.  They all look like a similar, (almost indestuinguishable) version of brown.  And 'Teal', 'Cerulean', 'Green' and 'Iris' now look almost the exact same.  All the colours in general look way darker.  I'm in the middle of a project and rely on the color separation to quickly detect various groups of clips on my timeline.  The color coding is kind of useless now. Hoping this is something Adobe plans to fix quickly?  

Thank you

First, I want to thank you all again for your feedback and comments. We are actively listening and working to address the issues you've raised. I'd like to provide an overview of some of the concerns we've heard so far, to clarify what constitutes a bug and what does not.

Color Text Labels Inverted: Indeed, we've encountered a bug regarding the inversion of color text labels in this latest release. Our team is working diligently to address this issue promptly. In past releases, when a user picked a darker color background, the text labels would always appear black. While this provided consistency, it often resulted in readability issues. With the new dynamic color text formula, the text label color adapts based on the colors and brightness of the background, ensuring improved readability and usability. Premiere Pro introduced this dynamic color text formula with the intention to enhance visibility by adjusting the text label color based on the luminance and brightness of the clip.

New Clip Colors: The introduction of a fresh color palette was aimed at alleviating eye fatigue and addressing longstanding clip color accessibility issues. Over the years, brighter colors in dark editing spaces have caused strain, and the previous color scheme ("classic") posed readability challenges, especially with waveform visualizations. The new colors offer improved contrast, enhancing intelligibility and making waveform analysis easier ( faster identification of clicks or other audio artifacts). Additionally, we've updated the color picker formula to optimize contrast ratios depending on the background color that a user chooses, further enhancing flexibility and customization options by preserving accessibility as well. 

Color Labels Presets: This new version also allows you to create new color label presets, enabling you to adjust your colors based on your preferences and needs.

Audio Waveform Layering based on Track Height: For this release, we have implemented an old Audition feature called Waveform Visualization Layering. In previous versions of Premiere Pro, when the track height was less than 24 pixels, we would scale down the audio visualization waveforms of a clip containing more than two channels, resulting in a loss of definition and clarity (waveform drawings in this case were rendered with a height of less than 8 pixels). The new version of Premiere Pro adds the audio layering feature to represent multichannel audio as a single audio waveform visualization. I want to clarify that the audio is NOT being mixed down or converted to mono.

Perhaps this may be of assistance.

Go to the edit menu, then preferences, then labels. Towards the bottom right, there should be a drop-down menu for label color presets. Select classic, and it will change the label colors back to the ones before the update. 

Mod note: Edited for content.

First and foremost, thank you all sincerely for your invaluable feedback. Your insights are crucial to keep refining Premiere Pro and provide the best editing experience possible.

Now, let's talk about the concerns:

Clip Color Text Labels Inverted: Indeed, we've encountered a bug regarding the inversion of color text labels in this latest release. Our team is working diligently to address this issue promptly. In past releases, when a user picked a darker color background, the clip text labels would always appear black. While this provided consistency, it often resulted in readability issues. With the new dynamic color text formula, the text label color adapts based on the colors and brightness of the background, ensuring improved readability and usability. Premiere Pro introduced this dynamic color text formula with the intention to enhance visibility by adjusting the text label color based on the luminance and brightness of the clip.

New Clip Colors: The introduction of a fresh color palette was aimed at alleviating eye fatigue and addressing longstanding clip color accessibility issues. Over the years, brighter colors in dark editing spaces have caused strain, and the previous color scheme ("classic") posed readability challenges, especially with waveform visualizations. The new colors offer improved contrast, enhancing intelligibility and making waveform analysis easier ( faster identification of clicks or other audio artifacts). Additionally, we've updated the color picker formula to optimize contrast ratios depending on the background color that a user selects, further enhancing flexibility and customization options by preserving accessibility as well. I would you invite you all to give this palette a try and let us know your thoughts after spending some time editing with it.

Classic Mode Preset: We've noted your concerns regarding the new classic label mode preset and its difference from the previous releases clip colors. Now, I understand the ask for the new classic preset to maintain the same behavior and clip color configurations based on its different selection states.
So, I have a question to this group... Would you like to see the same color configurations as we had before for background clip and waveform colors for non-selection and selection states as part of the classic mode?

In the previous releases when you select an audio waveform it goes to a grey/white tonality, which brings a lot of readability issues when using keyframes. Would love to hear more around this and what is your expectation for classic mode.

Your concerns and feedback are deeply appreciated, and rest assured, we are actively listening and tracking the requests. I’ll provide updates as soon as I have them.

Once again, thank you for your continued support and engagement.

Edit: Now that I look at @Mike-Berry's post, I'm not sure this will help. If someone tries this, let us know.

Original post: BEFORE you update, Edit -> Preferences -> Labels. Create and save a preset. Then once updated, select that preset.

On Windows, this is saved to:
C:\Users\[User]\Documents\Adobe\Common\Assets\Label Color Presets

Stan