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In Flare guides, font colors are difficult to read

Your "Flare Global Project Linking Guide" has examples and notes in white font on colored background. These are extremely difficult to see. Additionally, grey fonts overall are less readable.

I realize that in recent years, grey fonts have been "in style" with many user interface designers, but pale text is an anathama to at least half the population, especially for readers who wear glasses.

To user interface designers, these pale fonts have a "gentler overall effect on the presentation of the page". But I'm not looking at the page for its overall effect. I'm trying to gain information. And if I have to strain to see the text, this task is much more difficult.

The whole purpose of having user guides is for people to READ them. If you choose font colors that make this more difficult, the guides are not useable.

At the LavaCon conference (for content strategy professionals), in discussions of readabilty, accessibilty, etc, of on-screen content, I heard many comments like this: "Those *#&%@ grey fonts -they're so hard to see!"

Increasing the contrast of my screen is NOT THE SOLUTION - it changes the look of everything else.

Please consider this issue when designing the presentation of your help content.

Thank you.

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  • JJ Jones commented  ·   ·  Report

    I wrote this comment several months ago, about the MadCap Flare book entitled “Global Project Linking Guide” which was online from MadCap Flare. The page had a “send feedback” link, which I clicked and sent the above comment. The book is at docs.madcapsoftware.com. I don’t know why Adobe is replying to my comment,

  • Abhishek commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi JJ Jones,

    We are sorry for the issue you are facing.
    It appears that the file mentioned above i.e "Flare Global Project Linking Guide" is a guide related to some other product. Can you please confirm this ? Also, please share this file with us in which you are facing the issue.

    You can share this on abkhuran@adobe.com

    Regards,
    Abhishek Khurana