Will Glyphs be supporting dark mode from macOS Mojave?

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You need the latest cutting edge version. Activate it in Preferences > Updates.

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Thanks, Georg!

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I worked on the performance issues in Mojave a bit. It works for me now. Could you please try this version: dropbox.com/s/fz6f0nz3vlti560/Glyphs2.5.2-1180.zip

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Iā€™ve noticed in the latest update that the zoom performance is slightly slower than in the previous version. Apart from this everything is working well in the dark mode.

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Hi! The Fix Compatibility screen looks like this on Mojave Dark. Is this intentional? Running Glyphs 2.5.2

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It is not intentional. Iā€™ll fix it.

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The TextView in Preferences > Sample Strings could get a make up as well. Probably reversed out text.

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I fixed the sample strings already.

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Youā€™re updates come faster than one is able to report things :smile: :+1:

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Dark mode is looking OK, but it would be really good to make it optional via a check box in Preferences. Iā€™ve seen other apps do it that way with good effect.

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The main edit area is still black on white. If someone decides to have the system in dark mode, he/she should be OK with dark pallets and toolbar? Why would one have it differently?

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Because white on black small type is hard to read for one thing.

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But that is true for the rest of the system. So why activate dark mode in the first place?

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I am working happily in dark mode in the OS and most apps - I really like it. The pallets and toolbar in Glyphs are fine for me, and Iā€™m really glad the main edit window is still ā€˜normalā€™.

However Iā€™m finding that the main font window that shows all the glyphs is giving me a lot of trouble. I find it much more difficult to identify glyphs when theyā€™re white on black, and I donā€™t easily see slight differences. For example, Iā€™m working now on the bold version of a font, and I want to look through the glyph inventory to see if there are any glyphs that I havenā€™t bolded yet. If I have dark mode on I find it harder to see them. If I turn dark mode off they jump right out at me.

There are scientific issues that contribute to this when you have relatively large white letters on a very dark background. Halation can increase the perceived white area and interfere with stroke weights, level of contrast, etc.

It can also be argued from a macOS point of view that the font window is also a ā€˜documentā€™, or else that itā€™s a gallery of images like in Photos. In that case the glyph image (black on white) is the ā€˜photoā€™ which should not be reversed, even if the captions (name, unicode) are in full dark mode.

So Iā€™d prefer to have the ā€˜imagesā€™ in the main font window back to while on black, or if we canā€™t have that, have a preference to turn off dark mode altogether.

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Thanks for the explanation. That is much more specific and I see your point. Iā€™ll have a look.

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I couldnā€™t find an option to disable dark mode, is it hidden somewhere, or do I need to run the macro above? My poor brain canā€™t process white on black glyphs in the main window (black on grey might be better for dark mode?) and for glyphs that are marked with a colour, I canā€™t tell which colour is which. The sidebars are fine in dark mode, for me.

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You mean to control the dark mode in the font view?

Glyphs.defaults["GSFontViewDarkMode"] = False

(run that in the macro window)

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Or use Hidden App Preferences in the mekkablue scripts.

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Thank you, I hadnā€™t seen that plugin :slight_smile: