Hi all I know how to change the default colour in the settings, but can you set a default colour for the font? It seems to be set to grey, and I need to go and change each text block to black.

Hello Articulate Rise - From reading this chain of posts, it appears that fonts are still defaulted to grey. What this means is that I'll have to go through the entire course I'm working on, block by block, to switch the font to black. With accessibility at the forefront of our work, the default should be black (if defaulting is required) and then custom changes would be for those who want to switch to grey. Please work on this issue.

It appears that the global font color has been an issue for several years with Rise. Is there any plan to make it easy to set the color for the entire course to one color?

Dear Articulate 360, Can you please give us an explanation as to why this is taking up to 3 years (and probably more) to sort out this issue? I respect that you wish to leave the default as #313537, but would it be possible to give your customers the option to use any default font colour they want? I understand that you have other processes that are taking priority - but this seems to also be a priority to your customers. Thanks and wish this gets sorted out soon.

It would be nice to be able to change the default font in all areas of Rise. Particularly because research shows that black font is more accessible for those with visual impairments, or vision-related disabilities; and it's my own aim, as well as that of my firm's, to make our content as accessible as possible. I understand why the trend toward gray happened, but there must be other ways to enhance the UX for all learners...and developers? Like adjusting font size, or tighter, more concise writing... And frankly, my own eyes are not that great, so after working in Rise for several hours, I am feeling the eye strain myself!

Hi! I have the same issue. We have a need of branding all our trainings according to our corporate brand. And that includes the font color. The trainings can sometimes be quite long so it`s annoying and it takes us a lot of unnecessary time to do this manually for each text segment. That also goes for background colors to each segment. It would be great to be able to change the default also for that, even though maybe not the game changer the option of changing the default font color would be. I mean, the USP with Rise is that it is easy to use, but this makes it less easy, so it´s actually quite counter productive not to have that option.

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TeresaVanderpos
Community Member
3 years ago
Morning Articulate staff, it has been over 4 years that your users have asked to set the default font colour to black. I know you have a way to do your requests, but this can not be technically hard to do for all of us. That grey is not even that accessible especially when you look at it in tabs, Think of it as an accessibility request. Please, so simple and little time to make your clients happy, to me this is a quick win.... :)
NicoleBrady-9af
Community Member
3 years ago
Does anyone know if Articulate has this change on their radar? It is still a time suck to go through and make each font colour black.

@articulate - any progress here?

Thank you in advance.
JoseTansengco
Staff
3 years ago
Hello Nicole,

Still no updates on the availability of this feature request, but Ive added your voice to it. We'll let everyone subscribed to this thread know as soon as there's any news on this feature. In the mean time, you can track which features are being worked on by visiting our roadmap here.
KaylaPacan-6365
Community Member
3 years ago
Also chiming in that this is still an issue, still quite time consuming. Am also curious why the default isn't black for the highest possible contrast from an accessibility perspective. With the introduction of themes, I had hoped for the ability to control this better.
SamHill
Super Hero
3 years ago
Agree, default to black for accessibility. Especially in the multiple choice question feedback. The default font colour fails colour contrast, and that is when colour picking the darkest patches of colour on the text. Due to font smoothing, the contrast gets worse.
hkanstrm
Community Member
3 years ago
+1
AngelaSykes-897
Community Member
3 years ago
Commenting to see updates on this request.
KellyNichols-39
Community Member
3 years ago
Also waiting for this feature. Please- This is an accessibility issue and should be prioritized.
ChristianFrai
Community Member
3 years ago
This is just frustrating. For over 4 years and nothing has changed :-D

I really loved your product
LarryTurner-fd6
Community Member
2 years ago
Nearing the end of 2022, I would like to keep the request active to address the font and color customization. I see in the Rise Roadmap that the Text Contrast Controls are In Development, and while that is seen as helpful, I would see a huge benefit in being able to set the default color and font in one location. Also, with much work likely being copy-pasted from other sources as we build these modules, fonts and colors tend to get introduced, and the changes could be potentially overlooked. I would like to be able to make a universal check to ensure that all content is forced to a designated color and font. Obviously bold and other formats should remain.