Changing Text colour in Arranger tabs

[Harley Dear]

I really like the arranger tabs - they're great.

There's one tweak that would be nice if we can be indulgent. That is to change the colour of text in the custom arranger tabs you make because if you want to use light colour ( or bright ) background, the white text is too hard to see.

Harley 

Edited October 16, 2022 by Harley Dear

[sjoens]

Or use contrasting colors.

Same but opposite issue with PRV Note Name colors being too dark.

[msmcleod]

2 minutes ago, Lord Tim said:

I do wonder if some logic could be baked into this to cater for "unworkable" colours? I just tried a white colour and... yeah, you can guess how that looked. @msmcleod - is this eye-stabbingly difficult to implement something to detect the perceived lightness and flip the foreground text colour?

We did have something that did that using an off-the-shelf algorithm to detect whether to use black text or white text, however it got it wrong so often, we abandoned it in favour of picking a standard palette that would support white text.

It's worth revisiting though... maybe we can find a better algorithm or solution.

[Matthew White]

I definitely think it would be handy if this could be changed in the same area as you can select the background colors for these on a per clip basis if auto detect isn't possible.

[Promidi]

12 hours ago, msmcleod said:

It's worth revisiting though... maybe we can find a better algorithm or solution.

like exposing that text colour in the Theme Editor perhaps?