Font size and contrast improvements needed

[Steven White]

Please make the small fonts bigger, and make the color of text always contrast with the background. One of the reasons I went for the new Sonar was that I heard there were improvements to the blurriness. While things are a little sharper, some of the fonts are still too small and some lack contrast to the background color.  Increasing the display scale makes the small fonts a little bigger, but also everything else gets bigger too, including things that were already large.  The size of the modules and strips becomes unwieldy. There are a variety of text and background colors, and sometimes the text and background are almost the same. 

[aleo]

Check out my post on October 10th.  Data in the Time field above the track headers and in the Transport module need to be sharper and easier to read.  These are areas that you read frequently as you work on a project.

[David Baay]

1 hour ago, aleo said:

Data in the Time field above the track headers and in the Transport module need to be sharper and easier to read.

For me they are already 'sharper'; they just need to be slightly bigger and bolder as in CbB.

 I find the readability of almost all other text is an improvement over CbB at the same scale on the same monitor with the possible exception of Plugin and Media Browser text which got a little smaller, as did the numbering in the timeline and on volume/pan controls in the Console and Inspector. My vision is slipping with age, and restoring them to the size/boldness they had in CbB would be helpful to me. A larger timeline font would be especially appreciated.

I find the contrast is pretty good everywhere except the Volume/Pan/Gain widget labels which are the same medium gray on dark gray as in CbB, but their differing units/appearance and consistent locations make that mostly a non-issue.

This is all based on my preferred Mercury Classic theme.

[Happen135]

On 12/20/2024 at 3:42 AM, Steven White said:

Please make the small fonts bigger, and make the color of text always contrast with the background. One of the reasons I went for the new Sonar was that I heard there were improvements to the blurriness. While things are a little sharper, some of the fonts are still too small and some lack contrast to the background color.  Increasing the display scale makes the small fonts a little bigger, but also everything else gets bigger too, including things that were already large.  The size of the modules and strips becomes unwieldy. There are a variety of text and background colors, and sometimes the text and background are almost the same. 

Especially the project fonts in the plugin directory need to be larger, they look too small now

Edited December 23, 2024 by happy816