Hi! I was trying to work in some projects, and realised that the unified toolbar does not play well with a white canvas and the right side panel open, at least when running Glyphs 4.x on macOS 26.0 Golden Gate and the system look set to Dark Mode.
Basically, the names on my open tabs will all be rendered in white and, thus, become illegible atop anything but the sidebar or filled in shapes.
I understand that complying with Apple’s new UX/UI paradigms is great on principle, but in this case it’s clearly not working, and using a more opaque, dark toolbar like in Glyphs 3.x is warranted. Either that, or it’s a bug on my system, so let’s find out.
I should also add that I have my Liquid Glass transparency setting smack on the middle, so it’s not GG’s or my fault for having overdone it on that, either.
Edit: I had inadvertently set Glyphs to “Always use light appearance” in the main Settings > Appearance tab. I’ve since turned it off, because I really don’t want to use that setting and don’t know why it was toggled on in the first place, but the app’s behaviour under this scenario and user-accessible setting is still buggy, so I’m leaving the report up anyway.
TL;DR: when that setting is on in a system set to Dark Mode, the toolbar and tab bar should always be rendered as on the second screenshot.
i am uncheck the always light appearance in the red box, and it is okay now. not sure why there is two checkbox for same “Always use light appearance” on top and bottom
I feel your pain. At this point, it almost feels like it would be better to show Apple the middle finger and just go retro and non-compliant, even if it takes a bit more work. Brent Simmons put it best recently. And, hopefully, they may take the hint and one day (maybe with macOS 28? 29? Enough for the backtracking to not seem too obvious) do for their sidebars what they did to curve radii and other details impinged upon us by Alan Dye.
I’m not sure if this is related but I just updated Glyphs to version 4200 and now the tab titles have dark text on dark background when a regular tab is selected, it turns to white text on dark background only when I’m on the Font tab. I’m using macOS Sequoia 15.7.2 (staying away from liquid glass for as long as I can, thanks). Something else I noticed is that when I quit the app the dock icon has a white background, but while the app is open the icon changes to dark mode. I would prefer it to stay one way the entire time, but it’s a very minor annoyance.
edit to clarify: My macOS appearance is dark. I prefer dark mode in font view and light mode in edit view. When I uncheck “always use light appearance” in the edit view settings, this fixes the tab titles issue, but I don’t want a dark background for editing. Also I just tested it and if I change the canvas color for dark mode to a lighter shade, the tab title text changes to black regardless.
