BUG: Orange Highlighter Is Now Dull Brown 8.9 beta 3

Here is another screenshot with what is now called "orange" and "red" side by side, it is hard to distinguish at first glance. This has to go back to the way it was. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Here is another screenshot with what is now called "orange" and "red" side by side, it is hard to distinguish at first glance. This has to go back to the way it was

I happen to be a bit yellow color blind - I cannot distinguish between crimson and brick red in chem lab flame tests; Mother and I argued frequently over whether something was green or blue. I actually see this "orange" as a bit more "orange" than the old "orange" and a bit easier to read. I mention this only to remind people that their visual perception may or may not be representative of the "general population of users"

Then perhaps they should give people the option to choose which version they use, or, as some have suggested, choose your own colors. But I am very disappointed.

the option to choose which version they use, or, as some have suggested, choose your own colors.

I personally hate this sort of option - it takes a great deal of time and effort that I would rather see spent elsewhere - like getting certain interactives working. But priorities are personal and I understand why some would be fine with the expenditure of resources on colors.

Actually my wish, like you, is that they had spent it on other priorities and left it alone to begin with. [;)]

We are making this change to unify colors across all platforms (coming soon to mobile). 

Please consider changing the webplatform instead! 

Agreed.

Adam, I am curious, what was the thinking in changing the colors to begin with?

The underlying reason for choosing this palette is functional. The new highlight palette is less saturated and lighter, so there is more contrast between the highlight and black text. This provides better readability when put behind black text (which is the primary use case for highlighting).

Has this been a regular complaint? If it is an accessibility issue, why not just put an accessibility feature in rather than disrupt all other users?

One is stylistic; the old palette hasn’t been changed since Logos 4, and we wanted to update in keeping with the general color scheme of the Logos 8 style changes. This is less “conforming to the web app” and more “all apps are conforming to a new style.”

I understand that if you were talking about the way the program itself looks. However, highlighters, particularly the natural highlighters, were designed to look like real-world highlighters. Real world highlighters have not changed, just saying

We are going to revert the change for the time being, and take time to consider if we can adjust the palette to meet both needs in a later version.

I appreciate this. I would say, given the backlash that came from some when L8 was released about stylistic changes, I would be careful about making such changes, again, for the sake of making changes.