WISH: Accessibility: Use System Colors for Backgrounds

[pdfaze]

I’m a blind/low vision Rhino User, and I prefer everything to have a black background (even light gray is significantly slower for me to read and navigate.) I love the Rhino has a very customizable interface, but wish that this extended to things like the sidebar on the right side, the Text tool, and other things that have a dark gray background. If these could just adjust to the system colors and be black with a border, in the same way that the command line does, that would make Rhino more accessible for blind and low vision users, who often have their own custom system color settings that are most user-friendly for them.

Thanks!

-Paul

[CallumSykes]

@pdfaze

If these could just adjust to the system colors and be black with a border, in the same way that the command line does, that would make Rhino more accessible for blind and low vision users, who often have their own custom system color settings that are most user-friendly for them.

Hello @pdfaze, you can edit the advanced settings to override any and all UI Colours. It’s a bit more cumbersone, but if you play around you should be able to create your perfect high-contrasty Rhino. Ideally this would be simpler of course.

WIP adjust UI colors

I guess it is called Advanced Settings . All joking aside I’m not the expert on this, Just trying to divulge what I know in the hopes I can help. Setting it should override the UI, I know there’s no colour in the setting, so you kind of need to know which ones do what. [image]

[pdfaze]

Hi Callum! This is great news!!

Is there a place with instructions on doing this? Feel like I’ve done it in the past, but can’t remember where or how

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hi Paul -

@pdfaze

Is there a place with instructions on doing this?

Not at the moment, no.
We have an open ticket to get that cleaned up and then documented
→ RH-81908 Expose UI interface colors in a human readable way

For the time being, you might want to try to search for earlier posts on this topic, such as:

Cannot find colour setting for the Gumball/ Snaps buttons in the UI?

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Hi, anybody knows where could i find in advanced options who controls this text color? I cannot import correctly my color settings from V7 and V8 dark mode is too dark [2024-05-09_20-16] it seems that customizing Rhino in v5, v6, v7 was musch easier than now… Thanks in advance

-wim