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Sure would be nice if the default font color was always BLACK. Not sure who thought light gray was the best default color for title/labels

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Joe on 29 Jul 2016 18:39:08

Sure would be nice if the default font color was always BLACK. Not sure who thought light gray was the best default color for title/labels

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e9def11e 33fd-46d9-9b62-07513e60a263 on 06 Jul 2020 00:02:06

RE: Sure would be nice if the default font color was always BLACK. Not sure who thought light gray was the best default color for title/labels

This is a daily complaint I get from consumers. I need to update every box to be font color black and I still can't find a way to change the font color when using search.

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9aa5cd0d 3e93-4b35-9552-a4e6c2d5429d on 05 Jul 2020 23:36:49

RE: Sure would be nice if the default font color was always BLACK. Not sure who thought light gray was the best default color for title/labels

I'm a huge fan of PowerBI but this is my #1 complaint. Please remember what sort of people are consuming Power BI Reports. The first thing I have to do to all of my reports and visuals is increase the font size by 3 points and set the font color to black. I'm tired of trying to show a cool report to someone only to have to pause while they try desperately to adjust their reading glasses in order to read size 8 light grey font on a white background. Seriously, what were you thinking? We need to be able to just set defaults that are actually readable by someone over 40.

Themes are not a solution - they don't cover all fields and visuals and I have to re-import it for each new report I create.

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19ae61dd 1aac-42cc-8ad1-2ea3fc770f25 on 05 Jul 2020 23:18:26

RE: Sure would be nice if the default font color was always BLACK. Not sure who thought light gray was the best default color for title/labels

This is an unfortunate web design fashion -see also:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/low-contrast/
http://contrastrebellion.com/



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e73f25a9 fceb-4839-8ecc-dd80a5e4d1ea on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:54

RE: Sure would be nice if the default font color was always BLACK. Not sure who thought light gray was the best default color for title/labels

Yes please! The gray colour is straining my eyes!!!

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f1d4c301 ba2a-4360-8946-1e3d0e4f76a7 on 05 Jul 2020 22:53:10

RE: Sure would be nice if the default font color was always BLACK. Not sure who thought light gray was the best default color for title/labels

Agree completely! We should at least be able to set the default color ourselves. There may be design/branding reasons for different colors, so the user should have the ability to independently set their own default color.

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53094f06 b16e-4380-8529-848eeedd74d5 on 05 Jul 2020 22:44:42

RE: Sure would be nice if the default font color was always BLACK. Not sure who thought light gray was the best default color for title/labels

also would be nice to set default colors for all items for the whole pbix file. not only the fonts, but also the data in a chart. beginning is alwas this kind of green, i would like to set blue and grey as default for the 1st and second colour.