High Contrast Dark Mode

[satur9]

Heya guys, how’s it going, me again with a FR!

I would love to use Hookpad’s dark mode more, but I’ve been meaning to say that its level of contrast leaves a bit to be desired. Do you think you’ll ever add a higher contrast dark mode? The scale degree colours are very muddy and difficult to distinguish on any display I’ve tried, and the elements/controls themselves can be hard to do manipulation with because of the low contrast as well; I wish I could use it more when I’m up at night transcribing or composing instead of sleeping but it results in a lot of eye strain and a headache the next day! I expect use of truer black tones would probably not just be easier on the eyes but on screen battery use as well.

Looks like others have submitted requests along this line before.

Dark Mode: Improve the orange, yellow and green colors

I want to start using dark mode but it’s too hard to tell the difference between the yellow, green, and orange colors. Please make them brighter. Also, I’m not colorblind. It would also help if you increased the contrast and made some areas almost completely black and added some white (not too bright) into other areas like the measure numbers at the top.

Bb is almost indistinguishable from B (dark mode)

I use Hookpad in Dark mode and there’s something odd about the guide for a Bb note… From a far distance, Bb looks just like B! (Btw, the chords visible is C and Eb) Can this be fixed? (Also, sorry for making 3 topics in one day)

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[A or Bb]

THis might just be a problem that only I perceive, so if you have the same visual problem, let me know

I’ve got good colour vision, so I can imagine someone with a visual impairment might have far more trouble than I do.

For example, I imagine that you could probably put a thin (1px or more?) full-saturation line of colour on the “staff”. And I don’t think a thin white border interferes too badly with a dark mode when it is in the pursuit of higher contrast/visually accessible controls, when it is used to denote a border. But I suppose it’s about what’s achievable from a development perspective.

Take care

[DSchwachhofer]

Thanks for the feature request. I added it to our FR list. It might not be super high priority but I can understand the desire for more contrast.

Regards!
Dennis

[jackscores01]

Thank you! I have red-green colorblindness so because the contrast is too low, it is almost impossible for me to see the difference.

Edit:
Also, in the linked post above, I didn’t realize I was colorblind at the time because I can see all colors just not all shades.