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rwilen
4 years agoNew Contributor
Low contrast in 1Password 8 for Windows
Just installed 1P8 for Windows today. The first thing that I see is that there is practically no contrast between the white background and the light gray font used to show username under the site nam...
Former Member
4 years agoI'm just starting to use 1Password 8 on Windows, and first off my compliments to the designers - it's a very promising design, but as the other participants have noted - it is low contrast. 😢
Zooming the whole UI isn't a good fix for this - we have to work on relatively small laptop screens sometimes. (And my laptop display is set to 125% zoom at a system level already.)
The issues described in this thread appear to be accessibility issues (worth noting - not all disabilities are visible), and given best-practice in the industry, bringing a few users with vision problems or less than 20/20 vision into the testing pool would be very useful. They'd probably give you good feedback way before release.
Another helpful action for users with some types of vision issues is to use fonts with slightly thicker strokes. Some users don't necessarily have problems seeing the unzoomed letters but they do have problems seeing fine lines/strokes.
That said, the dark theme is much better in this regard - much better contrast! But we shouldn't have to be forced to use dark mode just to get better contrast :-)
Also, a wishlist item - the font used for the password, can it be "good old Courier New" like in previous versions, or at least a in a monospaced font? Not that we have to read passwords very often, but it was much easier to scan visually back when 1Password used Courier New.