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[Guntis]

There are problems with night mode when user has applied highlighters. Take a look at some portion of text in Normal mode, Night mode and what I propose. 

 

This is how it looks now in Normal mode:

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This is how Night Mode looks now:

 night_mode.png   451.75K   69 downloads

As you can see, highlights makes impossible to read this text. Colors need to be adjusted for night mode.

 

My proposed look:

 night_mode_new.png   549.56K   57 downloads

Highlighter color should be superimposed on the black background. Actually background could be a notch darker than it is now. 

[Rick Bennett]

I agree; this is why I switched to using underline styles only. I'm pretty sure we're just utilizing the Mac's implementation of this, so ideally it would need to be tweaked there first. But, maybe an iOS-only solution is possible; I can't comment on that.

[Guntis]

I agree; this is why I switched to using underline styles only. I'm pretty sure we're just utilizing the Mac's implementation of this, so ideally it would need to be tweaked there first. But, maybe an iOS-only solution is possible; I can't comment on that.

Actually you could do some tricks with colors for the night mode, or let users define day and night highlighter sets. It would be like a second highlighter set, only it would switch automatically as I turn on night mode. What's your opinion about this idea?

[Rick Bennett]

Actually you could do some tricks with colors for the night mode, or let users define day and night highlighter sets. It would be like a second highlighter set, only it would switch automatically as I turn on night mode. What's your opinion about this idea?

 

Personally, I think the whole highlight system could be revamped, and then considerations made for this scenario. However, as alluded to, that would need to start on the Mac app and then make its way to iOS. As such, I have no idea when it could be done, nor what priority it is.

[Guntis]

 
Personally, I think the whole highlight system could be revamped, and then considerations made for this scenario.

I fully agree with you. Highlight system should be revamped. It has many problems (empty spaces between two highlighted verses, highlighting one word in the verse which already has whole verse highlight disables global highlight for all the other words in that verse, etc.) and spoils aesthetics too. Long in the tooth... actually one of the two biggest problems for me in Accordance apps. (Second is user notes: no Unicode support and can't really edit user notes on iPhone or iPad without distroying links and formatting.) But I'm hopeful that after a year or two it will come... We all have to exercise patience of the saints, haven't we? :-)