With yesterday's update the natural orange highlighter, which used to be a bright orange, is now a dull brown. Is anyone else seeing this?
PLEASE change it back. Orange is my primary highlighting color in Logos.
Confirmed. FL, please correct.
Sorry, David, this was an intentional change. We updated the color scheme for notes and highlights when we rolled out the Notes tool, and while the color changes were applied to resource markup on the web app, it was overlooked in the Logos 8 desktop styling refresh. We are making this change to unify colors across all platforms (coming soon to mobile).
I hope it won't be too distracting after you had a little time to acclimate. =/
Desktop and web side-by-side below for comparison.
Why can’t we pick our own colors?
With yesterday's update the natural orange highlighter, which used to be a bright orange, is now a dull brown. Is anyone else seeing this? PLEASE change it back. Orange is my primary highlighting color in Logos.
Yes, I would very much prefer the old `Orange' color... please.
Sorry, David, this was an intentional change. We updated the color scheme for notes and highlights when we rolled out the Notes tool, and while the color changes were applied to resource markup on the web app, it was overlooked in the Logos 8 desktop styling refresh. We are making this change to unify colors across all platforms (coming soon to mobile). I hope it won't be too distracting after you had a little time to acclimate. =/ Desktop and web side-by-side below for comparison.
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I second this motion.
I do not/will not like the new color. Why must we have drab? This looks like someone hated color:
Only the red squares look like real colors. Must highlights look like colors for a funeral home?
I hope it won't be too distracting after you had a little time to acclimate. =/ I do not/will not like the new color. Why must we have drab? This looks like someone hated color: Only the red squares look like real colors. Must highlights look like colors for a funeral home?
Why can’t we pick our own colors? I second this motion.
This +infinity.
And by picking I mean a colour hue panel a la Microsoft Word
My color orange is still very "orangy"!
Yes, it is dependent on (a) your screen (b) your settings (c) your eyesight ... if you have ever designed a web based system to be usable for color-blind and low-vision users as well as the "visually ideal users" you'd have a great deal of sympathy for the interface designers.
I agree this should not habe been changed but I do find it interesting to see people complaining about FL changing something for the sake of it. I’ve complained for many years about that very thing and have been told off for doing so by some of the people who are now complaining.
I remember conversations on the forums from the Logos 4 era about highlighting colors. Some people preferred the really bright garish ones from L3 (Libronix), which were jokingly called the "Christmas tree" effect. They were toned down already once for Logos 4, so this look appears to be further "pastelizing" the palette.
I agree that you shouldn't change the color scheme of user-selectable elements (highlighter pens) out from under people. Sure, make changes in non-user-selectable UI colors to standardize on a new look if you want. But if you want to change the default highlighter colors, at least keep the colors existing users have already selected, and broaden the options of what can be chosen for colors. Color is a very powerful memory aid, and if you change something a person is used to in Bible study, it can throw them off significantly.
Here's an example that was snickered at for the "Christmas tree" look on this thread:
KS4J was able to a make a pretty garish-looking example even with the new more muted colors in L4 here.
There are some lovely examples of bright colors used for Highlighting and Visual Filters here:
https://wiki.logos.com/Extended_Tips_for_Highlighting_and_Visual_Filters
One very practical reason not to change the colors is someone would have to update the wiki pages that show the old color scheme.
Oh dear! I really liked the new colors, finding the text easier to read.
It seems like it was several years ago, but at one time a FL employee took the time to ask about desired changes to highlights. Unfortunately nothing came of it. 😬
As you make changes to the highlighting colors, please keep in mind those who are (semi-)color blind (about 8% of men). We prefer high contrasts and don't worry too much about the color.
