Vensim appearance bug in MacOS Dark Mode

[kaveh.dianati]

Hi,

I just wanted to report a bug with the appearance of fonts in Vensim graphs or log windows under MacOS Dark Mode where the text is often invisible due to being white on a white background. Please see attachment for example.

Thanks in advance for fixing this in future updates.

[sjgenco]

Just wanted to second this bug report. While I was very happy to see that the the latest PLE version fixed the legend-scrolling-off-the-bottom-of-custom-graphs bug in MacOS, I was dismayed to see this new bug introduced. There's a simple workaround until it's fixed, just go into System Settings>Appearance and set Appearance from Auto or Dark to Light. Then, when Vensim is fixed, you can set it back to Auto.

[Administrator]

Are things ok if you also switch the sketch into dark mode?

I'm not sure what to do about this (if anything). Things look fine to me if I switch the sketch to dark mode. I don't know how the logic works if you have the app in dark mode, but sketch (and graphs etc) in a different mode.

[kaveh.dianati]

Thanks. I wasn't aware of the option to switch the sketch to dark mode. That seems to have solved the problem.

[kaveh.dianati]

Hi,
I was wondering if I can re-open this issue. It is true that if I switch to Dark mode sketch, this issue is resolved, as I wrote above. But I'm used to working in Vensim in light mode which offers better overall visibility, even though I have my MacOS Appearance set to dark mode.

I don't see any setting in Vensim to set the background color of the fonts in the legend, where I can choose a non-white background.

I think the issue would be resolved if the legend font background colors were simply set to the same grey tone as the graph window itself.

This seems to be a reasonably easy fix. Any chance it could be addressed in a future bug fix?

Thanks in advance!

[Administrator]

Let me experiment as there might not be a way to do this. I'll try though.

It would help if you can reply to this thread and let me know of any other places where the text is not showing up correctly.

[kaveh.dianati]

Thanks a lot. I used to have a similar white-text-on-white-background problem in log windows (warning/error messages as well), but that problem seems to have sorted itself now.
There I now get black font on a dark grey background, which is not ideal in terms of contrast but still legible. (See screenshot below.)