From 243d18d5e7b709b55af036e3cd817ae6265a6186 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralf Brown Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:14:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add high-contrast themes to general preferences --- content/preferences-settings/general.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/preferences-settings/general.md b/content/preferences-settings/general.md index 875f6ba1fd..5887a580f7 100644 --- a/content/preferences-settings/general.md +++ b/content/preferences-settings/general.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ interface language : Set the language of the user interface. This includes the option to enable sentence case (`en@truecase`) for English. The system default is marked with an * (needs a restart) theme -: Set the theme for the user interface. Aside from any aesthetic considerations, the recommended interface color for color evaluation is middle gray. Visual perception is affected by ambient brightness, and a low user interface brightness causes all kinds of illusions. Using a dark interface to retouch photos can therefore lead to excessive retouching (abuse of contrast and saturation) and to a photo that is too dark when printed. It is therefore highly recommended that you use one of the "grey" themes for retouching work as these are designed so that the user interface approximates middle gray (default "darktable-elegant-grey"). +: Set the theme for the user interface. Aside from any aesthetic considerations, the recommended interface color for color evaluation is middle gray. Visual perception is affected by ambient brightness, and a low user interface brightness causes all kinds of illusions. Using a dark interface to retouch photos can therefore lead to excessive retouching (abuse of contrast and saturation) and to a photo that is too dark when printed. It is therefore highly recommended that you use one of the "grey" themes for retouching work as these are designed so that the user interface approximates middle gray. For those who have difficulty reading text in the default theme, darktable includes two "highcontrast" themes with white text on a dark background, but the caveats mentioned previously apply if you select one of them (default "darktable-elegant-grey"). use system font size : Select this option to use the font size defined by your system. If unchecked, you may enter a custom font size in the box below (default on).